* Scheduling downloads
@ Georgina Joyce
` Luke Yelavich
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From: Georgina Joyce @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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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?
Gena
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Scheduling downloads Georgina Joyce
@ ` Luke Yelavich
` Georgina Joyce
` Chris Norman
` Janina Sajka
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From: Luke Yelavich @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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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
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` Luke Yelavich
@ ` Georgina Joyce
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From: Georgina Joyce @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi
How would this script look?
#!bin/sh
# schedule download of dvd
if[ date %T = 00:01:00 ]; then
wget -c ftp.<some-server>/<some-dvd.iso>
fi
I can't see how to tell wget to put the download in a specified directory as I guess that it would put it in /etc/cron.daily/. I wondered if the above is anywhere like what I need?
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:43:01AM +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
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> 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
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Scheduling downloads Georgina Joyce
` Luke Yelavich
@ ` Chris Norman
` Janina Sajka
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From: Chris Norman @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
How about a combination of at and wget?
HTH,
Chris Norman
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From: "Georgina Joyce" <gena@genaj.plus.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 1:23 AM
Subject: Scheduling downloads
> 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?
>
> Gena
>
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Scheduling downloads Georgina Joyce
` Luke Yelavich
` Chris Norman
@ ` Janina Sajka
` Georgina Joyce
` Gregory Nowak
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From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
You might want to use the at command for scheduling commands to execute.
That could trigger a script.
Better stille, though, is ncftp which provides a built in capibility for
scheduling background gets and puts. You don't even have to be logged in
for it to work.
Maybe lftp does this too. I don't know. I have always just used ncftp
for this kind of thing. It meets my needs nicely.
Janina
Georgina Joyce writes:
> 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?
>
> Gena
>
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` Janina Sajka
@ ` Georgina Joyce
` Gregory Nowak
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From: Georgina Joyce @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi
Thanks, I'll give ncftp a go. Maybe that'll be easier than trying to write code to which I'm not qualified.
Gena
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:20:15AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> You might want to use the at command for scheduling commands to execute.
> That could trigger a script.
>
> Better stille, though, is ncftp which provides a built in capibility for
> scheduling background gets and puts. You don't even have to be logged in
> for it to work.
>
> Maybe lftp does this too. I don't know. I have always just used ncftp
> for this kind of thing. It meets my needs nicely.
>
> Janina
>
> Georgina Joyce writes:
> > 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?
> >
> > Gena
> >
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` Janina Sajka
` Georgina Joyce
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` Janina Sajka
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From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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Ncftp can't deal with http URLS though, can it?
Greg
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:20:15AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> You might want to use the at command for scheduling commands to execute.
> That could trigger a script.
>
> Better stille, though, is ncftp which provides a built in capibility for
> scheduling background gets and puts. You don't even have to be logged in
> for it to work.
>
> Maybe lftp does this too. I don't know. I have always just used ncftp
> for this kind of thing. It meets my needs nicely.
>
> Janina
>
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` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Janina Sajka
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From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
No, as far as I'm aware, ncftp only speaks ftp.
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> Ncftp can't deal with http URLS though, can it?
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> Greg
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> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:20:15AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > You might want to use the at command for scheduling commands to execute.
> > That could trigger a script.
> >
> > Better stille, though, is ncftp which provides a built in capibility for
> > scheduling background gets and puts. You don't even have to be logged in
> > for it to work.
> >
> > Maybe lftp does this too. I don't know. I have always just used ncftp
> > for this kind of thing. It meets my needs nicely.
> >
> > Janina
> >
>
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