On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 11:53, Adam W wrote: > On 6/10/05, Simon Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your question does seem a bit odd though. If you had mentioned what&why > > you are really trying to achieve, then perhaps there would be a better or > > more appropriate way... > > Basically optusnet cable gives you free bandwidth from 2am til 9am. I > want BitTorrent (python script) to start up at 2am, (and prefferably > stop at 9am) automatically so that i can take full advantage of this > free bandwidth without wasting my other bandwidth all the time.
Do you have to be using an X application? There's plenty of good console ones. The bittornado package (also python) had a curses interface you could start up in a detached screen session, as well as a headless version all ready to plug in to a script. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
