Hi, On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, maning sambale wrote:
> > There is a package available called cron-apt which might be better than the > > graphical update manager for this. It doesn't need you to be logged in to > > download packages and it can start itself when the network comes up if > > you're on say, a dialup connection. > > Can you limit the bandwidth size for this kind of download set-up? I > can't use firefox anymore when downloading packages on my dial-up > connection. I'm not aware of a particularly simple method. Linux can do this sort of thing though. I think wondershaper might be a tool to look at, though I have never done it myself. http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.ultimate-tc.html It seems to be packaged in Ubuntu. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
