On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:16 -0400 > Peter Smerdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]