On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Sameer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:38:10PM +0530, Codename062 George wrote: >> >> I wish if there was a solution if my laptop would automatically turn on at >> 2am and start downloading the stuffs which i have placed in the >> queue/scheduler of the download manager and stop downloading at 8am and turn >> off automatically. >> >> Any way to do so? Even partial solution? > > I used to use Automatic power on feature in BIOS + automated login and > download script (in GNU/Linux ) with support for shutdown at specified time. > But I think for download there are download managers that support timed > downloads. >
To shutdown the laptop at a particular time just have /bin/halt -p in cron at the right time :-) --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
