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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Program output in terminal by invoking in cron Post 302593562 by methyl on Friday 27th of January 2012 09:59:23 AM
Old 01-27-2012
Tried on a unix system (not tried on Linux).
Login to a normal telnet session.
Find out the tty.
Code:
tty

Do not log out.
Write a simple wrapper script for your program and manually insert the tty:
This assumes that "vt100" is actually correct for your terminal.

Code:
TERM="vt100"
MYTTY="/dev/whatever"
/usr/bin/rtorrent my_torrent_files 2>&1 > ${MYTTY}

This will only work if the program does not issue any "tput" commands because they will not work in background.

Because the terminal must be logged in, you might as well just run a normal script which checks the time periodically.
 

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NAME

       popularity-contest - list the most popular Debian packages

SYNOPSIS

       popularity-contest

DESCRIPTION

       The  popularity-contest command gathers information about Debian packages installed on the system, and prints the name of the most recently
       used executable program in that package as well as its last-accessed time (atime) and last-attribute-changed time (ctime) to stdout.

       When aggregated with the output of popularity-contest from many other systems, this information is valuable  because  it  can  be  used	to
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       The resulting statistic is available from the project home page http://popcon.debian.org/.

       Normally, popularity-contest is run from a cron(8) job, /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest, which  automatically  submits  the  results	to
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SEE ALSO

       The popularity-contest FAQ at /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ popcon-largest-unused(8), cron(8)

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