Arup 0 Report post Posted July 7, 2008 Hi, I've a limited bandwidth net connection. There is unlimited download available only between 2-00AM to 8-00AM. So my question is how can I schedule updates or package installation so that it starts automatically after 2-00AM without my intervention? [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianw1974 11 Report post Posted July 7, 2008 You can put a job in /etc/cron.daily to do this for you - this would start at 3.00am or 4.00am I can't remember how it's set up on Mandriva by default. Job would be something like: #!/bin/bash # # Updates system # sync repos so that they have new package list urpmi.update -a # update full system urpmi --auto-select --auto then you save this as /etc/cron.daily/sysupdates or whatever filename you like instead of sysupdates, and then do: chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/sysupdates to make it executable. It's important to add the #!/bin/bash at the beginning or your job will never run - I found this once, even though I could run it manually. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
medo3891 0 Report post Posted July 7, 2008 It would start exactly at 4:01 am. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites