Does anyone have a newbs guide to it?

Essentially I want to know if I can wget a file from one site to my hosting without physically downloading (local) and uploading (to hosting)

do i need some leety access to the box to do this?

Need some type of console access, either terminal services or ssh.

Failing that, you could write a bit of code that acts like a download manager.. submit a URL to the database, it checks periodically whats in the database thats new and then goes download it.

thanks man

I *think* i am allowed ssh access - yes, they are allowing a newb like me that sorted of access :P

Hah, in that case it's easy.. just 'wget http://a.porn.site.com/tittys.mpg'

ssh is just secure telent. (pretty much)

heh, bloody simple, just logged into my control panel and gave myself shell access :)

It will take a few hours to update apparently, will try again in the morning

tyrone@host:~$ wget http://www.naughty-teenagers.com/galleries/images/ --mirror

HeardY

Play with wget locally first and make sure you are getting what you want. with the wrong options you could download every .mpg on the internet to your site.

Not that that would be a bad thing

lol heardy is a noob, dont break stuff k

To call heardy a noob is an insult to noobs

failing that your account will sometimes have (deliberately or otherwise) net access that you can use via the web access methods in PHP or whatever language the box0r has

I have to do this because I have ssh access but the range of shell commands is extremely limited, basically cp mv mkdir etc and the text editor is vi. Even chmod is missing.

lol thanks obes!

so yeah anyways, I've been away for a few days, please to say - I've nailed wget :)

there is nothing like mirroring the interwebs at 10mb+ a sec :D