I use FC5. I have Windows XP also & I am very much used to scheduling applications in Windows. For example, since I have a dataone connection, whenevr I want to download large files, I schedule my download manager to start up automatically at 2AM & start downloading.
Basically, I find this functionality miccsing in Linux apps. i may be wrong. I didn't find any way to schedule tasks. Nor do I find any way to schedule downloads. Can anyone suggest how to schedule in Linux & if there are any download managers & bittorrent clients with scheduling options for Linux.
Thanks in advance.
Windows XP is known for it's ease of use. Actually it borrowed a lot from it's OS counterpart Unix!!
Ok forget about those details. Linux is based on Unix , which is a very powerful O.S. If you are an expert,
you can fine-tune everything in it. Most Windows users are dumb-heads , got used to doing things the
simple way!!
For scheduling tasks in Linux there is 'at ' command :
at now : the job will run immediately
at now + 10 minutes : the job will run after 10 mins (from the current time)
at now + 5 days : the job will start after 5 days (from the current time)
For eg.,
$at -f /root/bin/runme now + 5 hours
Runs the commands from the file '/root/bin/runme' after 5 hours , from the current time.
You can use the 'atq' command to view the scheduled jobs(tasks).
To automate tasks in Linux you have cron.
For more information on cron type 'man cron' on your system.
Also check out this link *www.linuxhelp.net/guides/cron/.
I don't know of download managers with scheduling options but I think Azurues has scheduling options.
just install downloader for x. it has a scheduling options.
hmmm... isn't there any GUI based tool like task scheduler on Windows?. I don't necessarily enjoy working on the CLI.
Anyways, I have azureus & I haven't seen any scheduling options in it.
I will check out this xdownloader thing.
Try Kcron *linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/112-Schedule-Tasks-in-Linux-with-Ease-Kcron.html. It maybe found in FC if you install KDE. Or you can search in yum.
hmmm...Awesome. Kcron is just about whats needed. I don't know why it wasn't installed by default. Anyways...thanks.
Also any bittorrent client with scheduling built in?.
