what happens when internet connection dies while running up2date

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 25 01:07:09 UTC 2004



ashwin kesavan iyengar wrote:

>Hi,
>      Consider a situation where the Internet connection between me &
>ISP dies when running up2date (this happens often in my case). Will it
>leave my system corrupted. If it does what r the alternatives i have
>to keep my box updated.
>
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Up2date usually will pick up where the connection was broken.  It will 
download any partially downloaded files.  I use a external program, such 
as GFTP, for very large file downloads and put them into the same 
directory that up2date puts them into.

James McKenzie

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