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ajnorth · 12-30-2007, 11:03 PM

Question: does anyone know how to use the new wake-up-at-a-certain-time functionality in 2.11 to do stuff other than connect to the IDS? My intended use of curl involves connecting to the Internet through my wireless router, fetching a bunch of html and images from known web locations (stuff I look at regularly), do a bunch of parsing/reformatting using awk and convert, then have it all there waiting for me to read in e.g. a pdf report at a certain time of day.

All this can easily be scripted but as I understand it cron won't run its jobs at a certain time unless the iLiad is turned on at the scheduled time of the relevant job, and I don't want to leave my iLiad on all day. The wake-up functionality sounds ideal but I don't know how to make it run my script. Anyone know if there is any software control over this functionality?

12-30-2007, 11:03 PM	#2
ajnorth Member Posts: 17 Karma: 280 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: iLiad	Wake-up IDS functionality in 2.11 Question: does anyone know how to use the new wake-up-at-a-certain-time functionality in 2.11 to do stuff other than connect to the IDS? My intended use of curl involves connecting to the Internet through my wireless router, fetching a bunch of html and images from known web locations (stuff I look at regularly), do a bunch of parsing/reformatting using awk and convert, then have it all there waiting for me to read in e.g. a pdf report at a certain time of day. All this can easily be scripted but as I understand it cron won't run its jobs at a certain time unless the iLiad is turned on at the scheduled time of the relevant job, and I don't want to leave my iLiad on all day. The wake-up functionality sounds ideal but I don't know how to make it run my script. Anyone know if there is any software control over this functionality?