Launching\contrloling from a console in Linux?

[2BWK-X]

I recently got FrostWire as part of an Ubuntu Linux distro, it seems like a nice program but slows the machine down too much to use with other stuff. (This isn't a problem in itself because the machine in question has only 2 Pentium Pros at 200MHz a piece.)

I'm still new to working with Linux but I was thinking about setting it to automatically execute at night and then shut off in the morning with KAlarm, however at the moment I'm not sure how. I only realized it was a java app after several minutes and chance look at the processes screen.

Assuming this in't too off topic for this forum I would like to know how I would go about launching FrostWire from a command line, shutting down the same way as well as any other interesting or worthwhile arguments that could be passed to it...or a link to said information I may have missed in which case I apologize for being sloppy.

Thank you in advance for any information.

[limewire]

I haven't actually tried this, but editing /etc/crontab should work. Depending on your setup you could add lines for starting and stopping frostwire as so...

00 9    * * *   root    cd /opt/FrostWire;sh runFrost.sh
00 17  * * *   root    kill -9 `pgrep -f Frost`

You would then need to restart the cron service. This would start frostwire 9 am everday and stop at 5pm. Edit to fit your needs/setup (test on an actual command-line first).

[2BWK-X]

Thank you that information; it put me on the right track. I wasn't even aware of cron. It seems but you can't stick a pgrep command inside a kill but people must want to do this a lot because there is actully a seperate pkill command that is essentially both rolled into one. Anyway thank you, I shall get around to testing this once I get home from writing my exam.

[limewire]

The pgrep inside the kill will work, but pkill is fine also.