Do you leave your box on at night time? In my /etc/crontab file I have these lines
0 1 * * * root /usr/bin/dpkg --get-selections > /etc/PACKAGELIST Generates a text file that shows all installed packages - good to back up for restoring machine 20 1 * * * root /usr/bin/apt-get update -qq Quietly update the lists 40 1 * * * root /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade -qq --download-only Download all packages that are needed for an upgrade but don't install them. 0 2 * * mon-sat root /root/bin/backup > /var/log/backup.log Do my daily backup All my machines have something like this, with various times set in the wee hours. They all use the squid proxy too, so generally downloads are decreased. Then later I can do an apt-get upgrade and it looks like this socks:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: gphoto2 imagemagick kdelibs-data kino libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 libgtk2.0-0 ...[snip] scantv streamer usbutils The following packages will be upgraded: cpp cpp-3.3 debconf debconf-i18n debconf-utils debhelper doc-linux-text eject g++ g++-3.3 ...[snip] xlibs-static-dev xnest xprt xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xterm xutils xvfb 124 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/121MB of archives. After unpacking 2639kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Of course this doesn't help if you want to install something big right now. -----Original Message----- From: Vik Olliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 1 May 2004 2:38 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: Throttling apt-get To avoid my wife throttling me, can anyone tell me how to tell apt-get to throttle its bandwidth usage? Every time I fire off an apt-get install/update/upgrade there's this cry of "Fee! Fi! Foe! Fum! Who's pinching all my bandwidth?" from her office. I unless I terminate apt-get, things get ugly and I may be terminated myself. I don't much fancy the "do it later" option. Vik :v) -- 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.
