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

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:33:53 -0700
David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Celejar wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:26:55 -0400
> > "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

[snip]

> >> What if you have cron run su - [user]?  That should set up a login
> >> environment.
> >
> > I tried (using at) 'su - username mc' and received a mail stating:
> >
> > su: must be run from a terminal
> 
> I missed most of this thread, so this may not be what you're looking  
> for, but has anyone suggested "rungetty", yet?

[snip]

Thanks; we're looking for a way to run /control ncurses apps
non-interactively, e.g. via at or cron.  Does rungetty help for this?

Celejar
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