When trying to recursively download some sites via wget I only got one message like:
Wrote HTML-ized index to
Turns out that I needed to add a * to the source path. After I changed
wget -r --ftp-user=user --ftp-password=pass ftp://hostname/path
to
wget -r --ftp-user=user --ftp-password=pass 'ftp://hostname/path/*'
things worked much better for me in GNU Wget 1.10.2 (Red Hat modified)