3 Aug
2001
3 Aug
'01
6:58 p.m.
The reason to hide the output (and not throwaway) of wget is to allow together with the -v 0 switch a batch version, which makes possible a remote triggered 'Hands off installation' for many machines on a bigger
site.
As far as I understand various ftp solutions, ftp works fine in
interactive
mode but not in batch.
ftp works great in batch mode in FreeBSD... even works with http:// URLs. I can't speak for any other OS though, but I do remember it not working on one of the other ones I've used... probably Solaris and/or Linux, but maybe HP/UX... not too sure.
The script as I sent it worked properly in FreeBSD with both the root and user installs. As long as you really were root of course.