[Libtorrent-devel] any way to schedule based on day of week?

[Dan Pritts]

thanks for the suggestion, but I don't want to do that - I want to
limit the upstream bandwidth during hours I might be using the
network, and unlimit it (upload_rate=0) while i'm asleep or at work.

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:18:45PM +0100, Peter Van Biesen wrote:
> Why don't you use a watch directory and move your torrent files in and out of 
> there with a simple cron command ? That's what I do ... and this works 
> perfectly ! 
> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> Peter.
> 
> On Wednesday 07 March 2007 17:08, Dan Pritts wrote:
> > Thanks for the tip.  I've used screen for years but didn't
> > know that it could do this.
> >
> > screen rocks.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:22:29AM -0500, Jason wrote:
> > > I solved this by running rtorrent in a screen session named "torrent"
> > > then setting up a cron job that ran this command:
> > >
> > > screen -S torrent -X eval 'stuff \"ccccssss\"'
> > >
> > > Where the characters "asd" and "zxc" can be used in place of the Cs
> > > and Ss to change the throttling, just like you were inside rtorrent.
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > On 3/5/07, Dan Pritts <danno at umich.edu> wrote:
> > > >Can anyone suggest a way to do "schedule" operations
> > > >based on the day of the week?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >I found this (more or less) in the wiki:
> > > >
> > > >schedule = throttle_1,00:30:00,24:00:00,upload_rate=0
> > > >schedule = throttle_2,07:00:00,24:00:00,upload_rate=37
> > > >
> > > >which is great for scheduling things that happen every day.
> > > >
> > > >I'd like to do something similar to unthrottle on weekdays
> > > >while i'm at work.
> > > >
> > > >simply doing 5 sets of these with 168:00:00 between them wouldn't
> > > >work, since it still wouldn't know which days of the week to run.
> > > >
> > > >I suppose I could hack up a little perl script to create a config
> > > >file for me based on day of week.  Any other suggestions?
> > > >
> > > >danno
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