[ILUG-Cochin.org] btdownloadcurses and crontab

[Vimal Joseph]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 19:56 +0530, 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.........

I think btdownloadcurses need a terminal to execute so the cron cant run
it directly. You can try ctorrent. It will work with cron directly. 

Or if you want btdownloadcurses, then try adding the below line 

30 2 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && gnome-terminal -e "btdownloadcurses
--max_upload_rate 10  /home/sanal/my.torrent" 
 
(all in one line)

and if you want to stop btdownloadcurses at 7:30 add another entry

30 7 * * * killall btdownloadcurses

~vimal


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