Peter Ruskin wrote:
>
> On Monday 23 July 2001 22:47, Kritifile wrote:
> > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > > "L.A.Lawless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > As I have a slow modem connection I can't download the entire
> > > > cooker,
> > >
> > > With "rsync", I think this is feasible to maintain an up-to-date
> > > Cooker tree if you run rsync in background when you check your mail or
> > > browse the web :-).
> > >
> > > --
> > > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
> >
> > My ISP disconnects me every 2 hours. It's the price of 'free'
> > connection. I've always assumed that rsync wouldn't be usable with
> > repeated disconnections. If it is and I keep automatic reconnections
> > going, it should be possible to get a full cooker in 48 hours.
> > --
> > Anna
>
> Rip-off UK, led by BT - first they offer you "unlimited", for which you
> pay, then they keep chucking you off. However, rsync doesn't mind this.
> If you know you're going to be terminated every 2 hours, as I was too with
> greatXscape, just run your rsync script from something like this (I run it
> from my crontab every 15 minutes from 18:00 till 06:00 Mon-Fri and from
> 18:00 Fri - 06:00 Mon:
Thanks a lot. The only 'free' connection by modem ISP that doesn't
disconnect after two hours that I know about in the UK is AOL, and I
haven't been able to get it to run under WINE. Probably never will as
long as they keep their connection details secret.
--
Anna
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Description : Run from crontab to wake-up exited rsync
> # File : rsync-cooker-refresh
> # Directory : /usr/local/bin
> # Author : Peter Ruskin
> # Created On : Sat Nov 4 15:35:54 2000
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> RSYNCUP=`ps --no-heading -C rsync`
> ISTATUS=`netstat -i | grep ppp0`
>
> if [ "$RSYNCUP" != "" ] && [ "$ISTATUS" != "" ] ; then # rsync and ppp0
> are up
> exit 0 # so leave them alone.
> fi
>
> if [ "$RSYNCUP" != "" ] && [ "$ISTATUS" == "" ] ; then # rsync up; ppp down
> killall rsync-cooker & > /dev/null
> /usr/local/bin/rsync-cooker & # your rsync script
> exit 0
> fi
>
> if [ "$RSYNCUP" == "" ] ; then # rsync down
> killall rsync-cooker & > /dev/null
> /usr/local/bin/rsync-cooker &
> exit 0
> fi
> # ends here
> --
> Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
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