YaAqoB Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Hi all. I'm wondering if there is a program for linux that will allow me to either disconnect the dial up modem or shut the PC down at a given time. Ie at 6am just before we wake up so the phone line is free. Or just before the wife gets home from work. I used to use getright with Windows and it did a great job at this. I'd prefer to have it disconnect and shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 d4x It's on contrib Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 if u r using mdk and KDE, u ca try kde base application called KTIMER, u can issue a command with a time delay, its already in the package of mdk 10.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnkirby Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 While I have not used it, I understand that Kget works quite well for this also. I would think that bittorent would be quite workable as well.... Capn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 d4x is the right tool for the job: http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ And it is supported by the FlashGot extension too if you use Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowchaser Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Steve Scrimpshire, zero0w A right the best program would be d4x i been using it for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 d4x...on it's own doesn't shutdown the pc....does it? this has been asked b4, somewhere on the board...I believe a script with wget was the final answer, but I don't really remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 There are options in d4x to 'Run command' in the scheduler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 (edited) yeah....when finished that does no good if you want a specific time as stated by YaAqoB I'm wondering if there is a program for linux that will allow me to either disconnect the dial up modem or shut the PC down at a given time. Ie at 6am just before we wake up so the phone line is free.Or just before the wife gets home from work. Edited February 3, 2005 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 Notice that my command is going to run at 13:36 regardless of whether my download (started one minute before) is finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 ah...cool...thx for the screenie! I don't use it. I used to years ago and it didn't this cool stuff. I installed it last night to look but I guess a lack of actually using it for the task limited my understanding. Sorry! :woops: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaAqoB Posted February 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Sweet I've got D4x Installed. What command would I type in to shut the pc down at what ever time I wish? I have tried the terminal command but it didn't work. Do I have to use special commands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 The top Add button on the scheduler is to add downloads. Lower left, you'll be able to pick Run Command or whatever else. The command should be: shutdown -r now or halt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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