Josh Kuperman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:34:33PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Josh Kuperman wrote: > [lots of stuff deleted] > > > Can you use PPP from Debian? One of the nicest surprises for me in Debian > > is > > that pon worked out-of-box, which I couldn't say about either of the PPP > > utilities which came with LinuxPPC... If this works, you can just use > > dselect's > > built-in update, select, and install tools. Yes, the download takes forever > > over a modem, but it can be interrupted and resumed- it even saves partially > > downloaded packages. > > It turns out PPP works fine,so this is not a problem, except as > follows. I talked with my ISP, who told me to go ahead but he hates to > have phone lines used at busy times because he tries to guarantee no > busy signals and he has time restrictions on accounts. Also, I have > message rate not flat rate phone service (actually the savings is at > most 7 cents). So what I need to figure out how to do is to make the > dselect update - the part requiring an internet connection - happen by > itself approximately between 2AM and 7AM. I am certainly not going to > sit there and watch it in any case.
Oh no! I can't think of anything. Except set the alarm clock for 2, pon, update (3-4 mins on 57.6K) and start the install, set it for 6:45, sleep until next alarm, interrupt (^C) and poff, go back to sleep, repeat the next night- including the update because a handful of packages are bound to have changed. That's a pretty ugly constraint to have to live under! Sorry I can't help more, hope you get it working! -Adam P.
