Getting nowhere syncing a download

[bob parker]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:47, Max Bowsher wrote:
> bob parker wrote:
> > Ok, here it is.
> > bob at debian:~/archive/knoppix$ rsync -vv
> > rsync://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso
> > KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso
> > opening tcp connection to ftp.gwdg.de port 873
> > KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso is uptodate
> > wrote 102 bytes  read 85 bytes  41.56 bytes/sec
> > total size is 732921856  speedup is 3919368.21
> >
> > And the md5sum check
> >
> > bob at debian:~/archive/knoppix$ md5sum -c
> > KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso.md5 md5sum: MD5 check failed for
> > 'KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso'
> >
> > I downloaded the md5sum again just to be sure but it still fails.
>
> Curious. I wonder why rsync thinks the file is up to date.
>
> Maybe the -I or -c options would make it look more carefully.

The -l option (still verbose)
bob at debian:~/archive/knoppix$ rsync -l -vv 
rsync://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso 
KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso
opening tcp connection to ftp.gwdg.de port 873
KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso is uptodate
wrote 103 bytes  read 85 bytes  28.92 bytes/sec
total size is 732921856  speedup is 3898520.51

The -c option
bob at debian:~/archive/knoppix$ rsync -c -vv 
rsync://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso 
KNOPPIX_V3.1-2003-01-20-EN.iso
opening tcp connection to ftp.gwdg.de port 873
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (24 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)

Weird!

Bob