On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:31:45 +1300 Ross Drummond wrote: > CS wrote; > > >Gentoo users without broadband will be able to synchronise their portage > >meta-data at LAN speeds. A selection of distribution files also. > > Those Gentoo users with broadband need not fell superior to us rural hicks. > > A bit of strategic thinking about downloading overnight and the flexibility > of > the command line allows us to play on only a slightly tilted playing field. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > wvdial & sleep 50;emerge -f alsa-driver;sleep 10;kill -SIGHUP $(ps -C wvdial > -o pid=) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Cheers Ross Drummond
LOL try it with kde and gnome, you'll still be off the hook in the morning. You might like to see if you can find an old program called connectd. It runs a daemon that clent programs can connect to and request the modem to dial. a script can do something like: connect emerger up emerge -f alsa-driver connect emerger down and other programs can ask as well, so as long as one client wants the connection it will stay open (therefore if another script is checking your mail when the download stops, it won't just be cut off). -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
