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

2007-10-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Lets get back to first principles then. How does a curses

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

2007-10-08 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:33:53 -0700 David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Celejar wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:26:55 -0400 > > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >> What if you have cron run su - [user]? That should set up a login >

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

2007-10-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:26:55 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:59:41PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-10-08 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:26:55 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:59:41PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 10/1/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On 9/30/07, Celeja

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

2007-10-01 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
I know that it's not what you asked but may solve your problem. I understand that you want to regulate the download time of your torrents I don't know rtorrent, but there is many that you can schedule download time and Bandwidth usage per hour, weekday, etc. (eg: Azureus) -- Henrique G. Abreu [EM

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

2007-10-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:59:41PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10/1/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > I struggled for a while to figure out ho

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

2007-10-01 Thread ndemou
On 10/1/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > > I struggled for a while to figure out how to do exactly this, without > > > success. I believe that cron does not work

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

2007-10-01 Thread Bhasker C V
All, Even if we solve this by going for an alternative approach as to using a text based program, we still need a method by which we can run some curses based application For this we can use "screen" (man screen) Open a new terminal and then run the program After running this program, we can us

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

2007-09-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/28/2007 05:21 PM, Peter Smerdon 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 achiev

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

2007-09-30 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 wonderin

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

2007-09-30 Thread ndemou
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

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

2007-09-30 Thread Celejar
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 ca

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

2007-09-28 Thread Peter Smerdon
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. -- Peter Smerdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpSsjFi