Well I was wondering, I was experimenting and I put this in SSH (Putty) : I have never tried to use wget in the background, nor have I tried to put multiple urls in at the same time. I'm still fairly new to using a dedicated server and I wanted to know if there's a way to see if my server is actually doing anything , I have no idea ! I closed Putty (That shouldn't effect anything as I put -bq in with the wget function in) but how can I know if my server is going anything Thanks for your assistance ^^
Use screen: Install it: yum -y install screen Code (markup): Run your program in it: screen [ You'll now get a shell, run your commands as normal ] Code (markup): To get out of the "screen" (think of it as a window), press CTRL+A then d , you'll see [detached] appear. To re-attach, use: screen -r Code (markup): Hope that helps Jay
The "-q" switch causes wget to suppress its output. I'd suggest you run it without this first. Also, AFAIK it can only fetch one url at a time. May want to put multiple wgets in a script. You can view the output at a later time, either by running it inside screen, as jayshah suggested, or by redirecting the output to a log file. wget -b 'url1' >> my_wget_log wget -b 'url2' >> my_wget_log wget -b 'url3' >> my_wget_log Code (markup):