On 11/10/10, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the past I have always gotten on the terminal of a server and > executed a script that did a bunch of wgets to get the CD isos for a > release. > > Well I want to grab the FC14 isos, and I am not home for a few days. I > can't do it in a SSH session to a server at home as I will drop my > session before all the images are downloaded. > > So I looked to crontab to run my script. But I could not see how to get > crontab to run something once on the hour and then never again. Unless > the last line in my script was to rm the script. Plus it will take more > than an hour to download the isos. I suppose I could use 16 as the hour > so it would only run it on the 16th hour of the day and that would give > me a day to clear out my crontab. > > Or is there a better tool? For example if I run the script with an & > after it, then drop my connection will the script keep running? > nohup or screen may be what you're looking for. Andras -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
