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I am trying to run transmission torrent client using cron.

I tried adding the below line to /etc/crontab

08 23 * * * pi transmission-gtk

Nothing happens.

tail /var/log/syslog says

Apr 28 23:04:01 raspberrypi /USR/SBIN/CRON[3383]: (pi) CMD (transmission-gtk)
Apr 28 23:04:01 raspberrypi /USR/SBIN/CRON[3382]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)

But, transmission is not started.

What am I missing here?

I tried calling transmission from inside a script and adding that to cron, no effect.

ATOzTOA
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  • Why are you running Transmission with a cron, rather than just starting it when your Pi fires up and letting it run? The web interface has everything you need to configure timed downloading/seeding, if that is your intention. – George Pearce Apr 28 '13 at 18:03
  • @gsp92 When I do scheduling in transmission, it still keeps pinging the trackers for seeds/peers even though there is no downloads. I don't want that. – ATOzTOA Apr 29 '13 at 04:08

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It seems like you are launching the GUI of transmission, and that can't be done from a cron. Only terminal-based or headless application can be started this way.

My suggestion would be to launch a daemon version of transmission, and control it through its integrated web-server. But still, no need to cron it, since it will stay up and running as soon as you start it once.

Transmission can be started as a daemon using :

transmission-daemon
Mickaël Le Baillif
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