Frequently Asked Questions

As I told many people, this is free software. I do not provide this level of support. You'll have to read the documentation yourselves.

1. Start off reading the README (or README.txt) file.
2. It will point you to docs/USAGE.pdf. Read it. It'll show you how to start off, get HTML output, get usage of previous months and so on.
3. If your need more information about things like command-line arguments accepted, read docs/dataone.pdf

The question has been answered in the documentation. It's in docs/USAGE.pdf. It's in section 1 (Starting off). It says:

If your network usage is free at certain times, include those times in the line starting with @free_times. Supposing usage is free from 2AM to 8AM, the @free_times line should be changed to:

@free_times = ("02:00:00", "08:00:00");
                

In the script, an appropriate commented line is provided. Remove the ``# '' at the beginning of the line to use it.

So, in the script, at the beginning, find these lines:

@free_times = ();
# @free_times = ("02:00:00", "08:00:00");
                

Change them to:

# @free_times = ();
@free_times = ("02:00:00", "08:00:00");
                

The perl module Term::ReadKey.pm is needed only if you use the --username (-u) or --password (-p) options. If you don't use them, just find the line:

use Term::ReadKey;
                

Comment it out by prefixing a "#":

# use Term::ReadKey;
                

In the next version (after 0.7), this will be taken care of, automatically.