Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially
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.
> Peter Smerdon
> psmerdon@magma.ca
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