[FSUG-Bangalore] Download

[justin joseph]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Codename062 George
<codename062 at 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 at 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-testing-i386-DVD-3.iso
#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_gregkh.avi
#00 8 * * * killall wget
justin at thinkpad:~/powertop/powertop$