[fsug-tvm] Re: btdownloadcurses and crontab

[Syam Krishnan]

sanalkumar mr wrote: Dear all.....when I tried to schedule crontab(as normal user) for bittorrent download in commandline , it didn't work.I edited crontab in Nano as given below. 35 6 30 Mar Mon btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate 1 /home/sanal/filename.torrent If you find any error plz inform me. Expecting support from the community......... ( cron worked when I tried the commands mkdir and touch , but not with btdownloadcurses....My free browsing begins at 2.am and ends at 8.am ) If you haven't found this already: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-schedule-interactive-task-with-at-or-cron-360511/ If you want to run GUI applications (not ncurses based, but apps that can bring up their own GUI), then use something like this in crontab file: 10 2 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && <command_to_be_exec'd> But make sure your desktop environment is up before this gets executed. You can use 'auto login' or 'timed login' feature of  your login manager (gdm/kdm). PS, I don't know how good BitTornado is.. I use KTorrent and I'm quite happy with it. Syam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---