background task to wget Fedora 18

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/15/2013 08:05 AM, Lázaro Morales wrote:
> Some time ago, Robert Moskowitz said:
>
>> Well the new release is out, and I am away at IEEE 802 wireless 
>> meeting across the continent from my server.
>>
>> Normally when I am fetching a new distro, I am local and VNC into my 
>> server (over SSH), open a terminal window and start the wget.  At any 
>> time I can reopen a VNC connection and see how the download(s) is 
>> doing.  But from here it is a number of island hops to get to that 
>> server, and does not always work.  I CAN do only moderately painful 
>> via a number off SSH hops.  So other than adding the wget(s) to 
>> crontab (I will do that anyway for the updates tree), or ending the 
>> wget command with '&' (and then not really knowing when it 
>> completes), how might I best remotely trigger these downloads so when 
>> I get home friday, they are there for me to work on?
>>
>>
>
> You can pass the -o option to `wget´ to create a log file for the 
> download and then
> you can just check that file. (I recommend you to use `nohup´ too)
>
> Example:
>
> # nohup wget ftp://someserver.org/somefile.iso -o /tmp/wget-log &
> # cat /tmp/wget-log | grep saved # To check when the download is finished

AH, that looks like the ticket!

Thanks.