Comments on: HowTo: Schedule your BitTorrent client to run only during specified times automatically.

By: harvest316

harvest316 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:22:44 +0000

Just what I needed, thank you. That DISPLAY=:0 bit and the ampersand sorted me out.

Speed Scheduler doesnt close the ports so you still get inbound “are you there?”-type requests during peak bandwidth times, which triggers my ISP’s traffic-shaping on all traffic types.

I’ve tried AzCron, which can close ports and do all sorts, but it keeps on dying.

So this is the only proper solution for me. I had to do a “whereis vuze” to find my full path before it was happy.

By: HyRax

HyRax — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:10:45 +0000

I agree, however in practice the plugin doesn’t always work. I tried a few scheduler plugins for Azureus before giving up and looking at cron instead, and these days I use Transmission now – far easier, simpler and a smaller footprint than Azureus.

This article was an exercise in absolutely guaranteeing that your torrents stopped when you wanted, plus it’s a small lesson in cron and how it can be used to start and stop other programs.

By: p2

p2 — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:13:26 +0000

you could use speed scheduler plug-in of azureus(vuze) instead, much easier and felxible