[SOLVED] crond not starting shell based apps

jestinjoy · 11-17-2010, 11:14 AM

Hi,

I tried using cron to start rtorrent. But I couldnt start it successfully. My crontab looks like this.

Code:

# m h  dom mon dow   command
40 22 17 11 * rtorrent

My cron is running properly. How could I start a new shell , so that rtorrent could run using cron.

d072330 · 11-17-2010, 12:12 PM

I do believe you have to give the full path to the program/script you want to run in cron.

Example

Quote:

# m h dom mon dow command
40 22 17 11 * /opt/rtorrent

jestinjoy · 11-18-2010, 07:15 PM

My problem was that the gui apps not starting up. Now using the display option its working fine now. I gave like this.

Code:

# m h  dom mon dow   command
47 09 18 11 * env DISPLAY=:0 gnome-terminal -e rtorrent