Re: [opensuse] Using aria2
- From: Susemail <susemail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:01:53 -1000
On Friday 15 December 2006 03:57, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Susemail <susemail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [12-15-06 04:25]:Did you mean: 'not -log=logfile'?
On Thursday 14 December 2006 12:08, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Susemail <susemail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [12-14-06 15:20]:
# aria2c -help | grep log
-l, --log=LOG The file path to store log. If '-' is
specified, log is written to stdout.
Does LOG refer to the log file?
yes
If I use '-l' then aria2c -l logfile is the correct syntax?
yes
But if I use '-log' then it's aria2c --log=logfile?
it's: -l LOGFILE
or: --log=LOGFILE
not: -log
Only in the sense that you gave my all the parts.What is the command to get aria2c to print to stdout?
-l, --log=LOG The file path to store log. If '-' is
specified, log is written to stdout.
woud be: -l -
or: --log=-
# aria2c -l /home/myhome/aria2c.log
This will not execute. No errors reported, the command is simply
erased.
It's a _reading_ problem...
aria2c -l ~/aria2c.log -T <torrent_file>
' Usage: aria2c [options] URL ...
aria2c [options] -T TORRENT_FILE FILE ...'
I see you left out 'URL' in your example. Because it is optional?
Usage: aria2c [options] URL ...
aria2c [options] -T TORRENT_FILE FILE ...
aria2c [options] -M METALINK_FILE
you have to use a URL
or "-T TORRENT_FILE" and you can specify and individual FILE within
the iso or " -M METALINK_FILE"
This is confusing. What is a Torrent file?
use google.
Is *.metalink a torrent file?
use google
Which torrent file is expected here.
the torrent for the iso you want to download
I need to set up a log file in order
to find out why there is an error (where there should be no error-this
should just work imho). Can you tell me the command using this program
that will create the log file so I can move on.
I have, over and over
The best I can come up with based on the man pages and emails is:
I was so close here. One token wrong. I should have read the man
page more closely. I only noticed the part about logging.
aria2c -l ~/aria2c.log -T openSUSE-10_2-GM-DVD-i386_iso.metalink
which doesn't work: malformed meta data.
You told aria2c to look for a torrent, "-T", and provided a metalink,
"openSUSE-10_2-GM-DVD-i386_iso.metalink"
Which raises another question.
Which part of this statement is meta data? All I see is a
command:'aria2c';an option '-l';a file: ' ~/aria2c.log'; another
option:'T'; and another file:'openSUSE-10_2-GM-DVD-i386_iso.metalink'
the metalink contains the "meta data".
The error response from the program told you that a torrent parameter
was necessary
I see.
why are you installing tar-balls on an rpm based system when there are
rpms build for your system available? no, no, no
I went to the sourceforge page for aria2 and there were no suse rpms.
SourceForge is not an openSUSE site. Look for openSUSE specific rpms
at openSUSE or openSUSE contributor sites.
Yes sir.
I didn't think to check anywhere else. I have now installed the rpm
on top of the tar.bz install.
You _should_ have removed the tar-ball first.......
I know. But it seemed like such a chore. My bad.
Now I have the man pages but I didn't need them since you had copied
the log data in your response.
looks like you still need them, but cannot (?will not?) read them.
I think cannot.
I still get the same error message.
you are still doing the same things wrong. "a" is not "A" and "-T" is
not "-M" and "torrent" is not "metalink" and if the program requires
specific parameters, they *must* be provided.
This is crystal clear now for me in the context of your example.
So far the program isn't providing any error/help messages except look in
places that don't exist for the error message.
it has, in every instance. You are looking for or expecting something
that is not there.
Ok, one, 'look in the log'
This is a lot of effort for something that should be easy to do.
it is:
aria2c -l ~/aria2c.err.log -M openSUSE-10_2-GM-DVD-i386_iso.metalink
will get you what you want, this time.
Now I see how it works! I was trying to set up the log file and then run the
command. You set up the log file and run the command together on the same
line.
Why did I think otherwise? Because this is my first time setting up a log
file this way. Also the command line is still mostly a foreign language to
me (Patrich might argue completely foreign). And because there are so few
translations in the man pages such as your excellent example Patrick:
aria2c -l ~/aria2c.err.log -M openSUSE-10_2-GM-DVD-i386_iso.metalink.
Had a few of these examples been sprinkled around the man page I would have
seen how everything fits together immediately. No guessing wrong or at least
a lot less. I think man pages full of examples would make the command line
work a lot better for a lot more people. And after all, isn't that part of
what Linux is all about?
But the next time, if you continue to disreguard the instructions and
messages the program provides, you will have the same problem.
I never disregarded the instructions. I would never do that. I simply
interpreted them incorrectly.
note that the log file is only necessary if you have problems. I don't
use it, but haven't experienced any problems, fingers and ... crossed.
ps: it would be much easier to read and/or respond to your posts if
you would leave an empty line between the quotes and your comments or
questions.
Now to the error log:
# cat aria2c.err.log
Sat Dec 16 17:02:37 2006 - INFO - aria2c 0.9.0
Sat Dec 16 17:02:37 2006 - INFO - Logging started.
Sat Dec 16 17:12:17 2006 - INFO - aria2c 0.9.0
Sat Dec 16 17:12:17 2006 - INFO - Logging started.
Not much information here. What should I do now?
Thank you Patrick,
Jerome
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