Background task to download FC14 isos

[Andras Simon]

On 11/10/10, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> In the past I have always gotten on the terminal of a server and
> executed a script that did a bunch of wgets to get the CD isos for a
> release.
>
> Well I want to grab the FC14 isos, and I am not home for a few days.  I
> can't do it in a SSH session to a server at home as I will drop my
> session before all the images are downloaded.
>
> So I looked to crontab to run my script.  But I could not see how to get
> crontab to run something once on the hour and then never again.  Unless
> the last line in my script was to rm the script.  Plus it will take more
> than an hour to download the isos.  I suppose I could use 16 as the hour
> so it would only run it on the 16th hour of the day and that would give
> me a day to clear out my crontab.
>
> Or is there a better tool?  For example if I run the script with an &
> after it, then drop my connection will the script keep running?
>

nohup or screen may be what you're looking for.

Andras