On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Codename062 George codename062@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all i have an internet connection with speed 4Mbps and my plan is offering free unlimited download from 2AM to 8AM but with a monthly limit of 2.5GB. Usually i download more than 50GB a month by not sleeping in the night. But nowdays i feel tired in the night and has to wake up early morning. But this week i have to download a lot especially the distros which may be as large as 4.5GB each.
I wish if there was a solution if my laptop would automatically turn on at 2am and start downloading the stuffs which i have placed in the queue/scheduler of the download manager and stop downloading at 8am and turn off automatically.
I don't think the solution involves turning on the laptop at 2 am and turning off at 8 a.m
The below is one way to do what you have in mind:
justin@thinkpad:~/powertop/powertop$ crontab -l # m h dom mon dow command #15 2 * * * wget -P /home/justin/debian_squeeze -c http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-dvd/debian-test... #15 3 * * * youtube-dl -b -c -o /home/justin/cycle_tourdefr.flv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVcKzzB-eF0 #15 2 * * * wget -P /home/justin/gregkh -c http://www.kernel.org/pub/media/talks/gregkh/2008_driver_writing_tutorial_gr... #00 8 * * * killall wget justin@thinkpad:~/powertop/powertop$