Wget notes
From Federal Burro of Information
sample config, use .netrc not .wgetrc
machine servername login mylogin password mypassword
sample script:
isengard cd /data/updates wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=3 ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/noarch wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=3 ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386 wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=3 ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i686