Arup Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 It would start exactly at 4:01 am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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