[Klug-general] cron spookiness!

[Alex A. Smith MCP]

Hi,

The main bittorrent needs to have a display to attach to as it shows the 
stats and stuff else it'll die on you (Hence the Runtime Error). There 
is a Bittorrent called btdownloadheadless.py (its in 
/usr/bin/btdownloadheadless.py on my gentoo box) that doesn't need to 
have a screen to attach to and will run quite happy in the background 
for you but it may not be on your machine.

If its not you could use "screen" to make a virtual screen for it to use 
(screen /usr/bin/bittorrent) which you'd be able to look at yourself 
using screen -r on ssh if you felt so inclined.

For screen theres a cool little guide over on the Gentoo-Wiki that 
should help - http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen

Hope that helps,

Alex A. Smith MCP
ASMHosting.com Owner

Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Can anyone help me sort this cron problem out please? If I run 
> '/usr/bin/bittorrent' from the command line it works okay and launches my 
> bittorrent gui. But if I run '5 23 * * * /usr/bin/bittorrent' as a cron-job 
> it fails and I get this error message ;-
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/bittorrent", line 30, in ?
>     import gtk
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py", line 37, in ?
>     
> RuntimeError: could not open display
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> So, is it a coding problem, or a cron problem? And can anyone suggest a 
> workaround for me please?
>
> Hopefully thanks
> Sharon.
>