On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:32 +1100, david wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 21:12, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 December 2004 01:52, david wrote: > > > > > thats the trouble i was at root when the download started and i cannt > > > find any files, by name, by size anywhere from root on down > > > got me > > > its downloading from ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/??????? > > > so it should of created a folder called mirror.pacific.net.au > > > would this be correct? > > > but its still not there either. > > > it still downloading madly, i just hope its saving them somewhere > > > its actually all the files to make and iso from > > > havent found a repository for 64bit man 10.1 > > > thanks > > > > Not to sound like a smartass, but: > > > > # pwd > > > > should tell you what directory your files are in. Unless you specifically > > gave wget a destination folder to put files into, it should download them > > into your current working directory. It would not have created a folder > > called mirror.pacific.net.au or whatever; it would have just put the files > > into the directory you're currently in. When I used wget earlier today to > > get the gpg keys for the kde-redhat repository, the file was placed in my > > current working directory, no subdirectories created or anything like that. > > > > -- > > Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxx) > > AIM: Buffalo2K / http://www.mossroot.com > > "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." > > -Mark Twain > > > yes well mmmm > pwd reveals /root > is there a way of accessing this folder from a user or do i have to go > into root login to get there and have a look > im still downloading and it seems to be happy > i gave the command: root]#wget -m URL???? > so thats where they are > thanks > david > 1. You are doing downloads as root. That can be bad security wise. 2. /root is only accessible by root, or by using some of the tools available such as su or sudo. If you modify/have modified your system to allow any average user to access /root that can be very bad. You obviously were either logged in as root or had su-ed to root for the files to be placed there. You can access the files the same way you downloaded them.
