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



On 09/28/2007 05:21 PM, Peter Smerdon 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. 

This may help to start:
$ man at
and perhaps a script could be run to kill it as well, but I wouldn't
know about graceful exits with that.

Regards,
Ralph



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