On 10/1/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > > 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. > > > > > > usually such problems have to do with the differences of the > > environment (bash variables) - you can customize the env. of cron to > > overcome this problem > > I don't currently have rtorrent installed, but can you give a bit more > explanation or a pointer for future reference? What differences in the > environment do you mean? Which variables have to be modified, and to > what values?
if you enter the "set" command in bash you get a list of bash variables that are accessible to all programms that you execute. This is called "the bash environment" (see [1] for more info). A lot of programms really need to check the values of some of these variables to execute. Cron has only a small portion of them set so a lot of programms fail when run from cron (can't tell if this is your specific case though) _____________ [1] http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/chap_03.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
