On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:18, you wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > >thats fine, i do it all the time > > > >like in one terminal > > > >emerge -uf world > > > >wait until a couple have downloaded abd then run > > > >emerge -u world in another terminal. the compiling never seems to catch > >up to the downloading, although that dependent on your machine and your > >net connection. > > Damn it I'm using a modem. > I used to do #emerge -f package && emerge package > and then go to bed. Ipcop would automatically hang up in the middle of > the night > on inactivity. But since msblaster there is so much [EMAIL PROTECTED] still flying > around the net > that it won't reliably hang up. Set a job going on the gentoo box that waits until all the wget jobs have finished and then explicitly kill the ppp daemon on the IPCop box.
Simple shell script. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
