11 articles tagged "wget"

Download Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 has been released and download it while it is hot!
How To Find Out If ISP Is Throttling BitTorrent Traffic
This test suite creates a BitTorrent-like transfer between your machine and our server, and determines whether or not your ISP is limiting such traffic. This is a first step towards making traffic manipulation by ISPs more transparent to their customers.
Lighttpd Install and Configure AwStats Software Log Analyzer
AWStats is a free powerful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line. This document describes awstats configuration.
Shell Scripting Hack: cp Command With a Progress bar
This is a nice shell scripting hack. It allows you to give a progress bar like wget to cp command.
Quick Tip: Run wget in background for an unattended download of files
Here is quick tip, if you wish to perform an unattended download of large files such as Linux DVD ISO use wget as follows:
wget -bqc http://path.com/url.iso
Where,
=> -b : Go to background immediately after startup. If no output file is specified via the -o, output is redirected to wget-log.
=> -q : Turn off Wget’s output [...]
Howto: Verify Downloaded Linux / BSD DVD or CD ISO images for integrity
You need to verify that that downloaded Linux DVD or ISO images are intact before you burn and use them. This is security feature. But how do you verify ISO images?
Answer is quite simple use md5sum command to compute and check MD5 message digest.
Why verify ISO images?
a) To protect yourself
b) Verify that a file has [...]
Postfix mail server block Malware with blacklist
Malware is used for a harmful purpose. It can be in your software or hardware. Email and free (don’t confuse with OSS) or pirated software is the most famous way to spread malware. It is inserted in a system w/o user notification.
Wikipedia defines Malware as:
Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a [...]
How To Extract an RPM Package Without Installing It (rpm extract command)
Explains how to extract rpm files (extract any file from rpm) under Red Hat / Suse / RHEL / Fedora / CentOS or any rpm base Linux distribution.
Install PHP 5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4
It appears that many people or sys admin want to run php 5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unfortunately Redhat does not provide this package (RPM file) for RHEL. You can download source code and install php 5 from official php site. This requires compiler collection on your system. Download source code and just follow [...]
Linux ultra fast command line download accelerator
Usually I use wget, which is ultimate command line downloader. However, wget failed to accelerate my download speed. I was downloading 1.4GB file around 800KB/s download speed (this box is hooked to uplink port speed 10 Mbps ). However, remote server was restricting me.
Therefore, I decided to get rid of wget. I have [...]