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List:       wget
Subject:    Re: Problem
From:       Jennifer Pierce <jpierce () minerva ! bah ! com>
Date:       1997-09-05 12:44:09
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997 John.Robinson@lawsociety.org.uk wrote:
>      From what I've read about wget I don't think it is what I need but 
>      here goes ....
>      
>      I have a Linux box at home which holds my WWW sites, I have a dialup 
>      account with Demon, who give me 5MB of web space, I need to be able to 
>      make changes to my local copy of my web, and then those changes need 
>      to be pushed up by my box onto the Demon web space by means of ftp 
>      automatically once a day.... is this possible? could I use wget?
>      
>      Please help!

Depends on two things:
1. what kind of dialup account do you have? with PPP this is probably 
possible... there are also ways to SLIP across a shell account (I think 
the name of the program is slurp) but I don't have any experience with 
that...

2. do you have the kind of access on the machine where you need to push 
the files such that you can initiate a cron job from that end?

If you have a dialup such that you can reliably open an ftp connection 
from the Demon machine to your linux box, and you're allowed cron jobs, 
you can call wget in a cron job to fetch the ftp urls from the Demon side.

Otherwise, you're probably better of with an ftp client that lets you define
macros, such as NcFTP by Mike Gleason, NCEMRSoft.  That way you could 
initiate the transfer from your linux box.  (still in a cron job.  if you 
add directory structure to your local copy of the site, you will need to 
update your ncftp startup file and possibly create the directory 
structure on the remote host manually.)

Yet another alternative, if the machine you're transferring to gives you 
a standard UNIX mail space and you have shell account space, you could do 
something evil with procmail and tar files...

Hope this helps,

--Jen Pierce

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