From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([203.10.1.132]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FX6DI-0007BU-00 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:43:04 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id E014111CDDC for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:44:22 +0800 (WST) Received: from vscan02.westnet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vscan02.westnet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19213-05 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:44:22 +0800 (WST) Received: from linden.yelavich.home (dsl-202-173-132-131.nsw.westnet.com.au [202.173.132.131]) by vscan02.westnet.com.au (Postfix) with SMTP id 9497F11AAA7 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:44:22 +0800 (WST) Received: (nullmailer pid 22610 invoked by uid 1000); Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:43:01 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:43:01 +1000 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Scheduling downloads Message-ID: <20060422004301.GA22566@linden.yelavich.home> References: <20060422002341.GA2929@genaj.plus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060422002341.GA2929@genaj.plus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Luke Yelavich X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:43:04 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:23:41AM EST, Georgina Joyce wrote: > Hi All > > My ISP requests that I schedule downloads during off peak hours and as I'm looking at downloading a DVD image, I'm wondering how I can start my download. > > Of course I could wait until midnight and start the download but I wondered if there was a more automated way. Even to stop at 08:00 and resume the following midnight. I know that I could use cron but I would need to specify a time and the download location, which seems a little scary. I'd usually use lftp but maybe another client might offer a solution? Just thought, might wget do the job? Any suggestions anyone? This is something that is easily scriptable. You could write one script to start the download, and then have another script to find out the process ID of the currently running script for the download, and kill it. Wget is good, but make sure you use the command-line flag to resume downloads at a later time when you want the download to be resumed. hth - -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: themuso@themuso.com ICQ: 18444344 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFESXwVjVefwtBjIM4RAiMPAKCc7pTBONyU0ZcxHuUnB5x0oNqzdwCg40sS w1OlqRxNAZ9VnQyYKUudz0k= =Ghbi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----