Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300
ndemou@gmail.com wrote:

> On 9/30/07, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:16 -0400
> > Peter Smerdon <psmerdon@magma.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > Sid Arth <sidster802@gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wondering if it is possible for the
> > > > system to turn the program off at certain times, and turn it back on at
> > > > other times.
> > >
> > > You can probably use use `cron' to achieve this.
> >
> > I struggled for a while to figure out how to do exactly this, without
> > success. I believe that cron does not work, since (at least some)
> > ncurses apps insist on being run from a terminal.
>
>
> usually such problems have to do with the differences of the
> environment (bash variables) - you can customize the env. of cron to
> overcome this problem

I don't currently have rtorrent installed, but can you give a bit more explanation or a pointer for future reference? What differences in the environment do you mean? Which variables have to be modified, and to what values?

Celejar

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