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Entry title: Far Cry!
Date added:  Sunday, May 16 2004, 04:21PM
Written by:  Agilo (agilo3@gmail.com)
Entry ID:    70
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I was downloading 3 GiB (Far Cry) through "wget", a downloading tool for
Linux, and I shut down Apache Web Server, because I needed the downstream to
be as fast as it can, without being lagged.
So I wrote a script to check if wget was active, and, if not (thus wget was
finished / the downloads were finished), start Apache.


The script I wrote:


#!/bin/sh
 
if [ "`ps aux | grep "wget" | grep "grep" -v`" ]; then
 blarbla="yes";
fi;
if [ $blarbla ]; then
 echo `date "+%H:%M:%S"`"  Nope, still downloading..";
else
 sudo /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
fi;


And I simply did:
$ sleep 5000 ; ./start.sh ; sleep 5000 ; ./start.sh ; sleep 5000 ; ./start.sh
; sleep 5000 ; ./start.sh ; sleep 5000 ; ./start.sh ; (etc)

And it worked, too!
(I wasn't really sure if it'd work, but I decided to give it a try anyway.)
When I got back, there were 4 messages that the downloads were still active,
and underneath it, four messages that Apache has started. :D

Now I need to burn the BIN files on either CD's or a DVD, whichever the readme
file says (I didn't read it yet). :)


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