Running rTorrent in Screen at boot up

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Living in a country where the power is currently going off around 4 or 5 times a day it became essential to set up my Bubba server to restart rTorrent automatically on reboot.

Having spent countless hours searching the web and trying various solutions I came across this site http://www.plouj.com/blog/2008/03/31/ho ... de-screen/ and it appears to be working using the crontab setting

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 @reboot /usr/bin/screen -fa -d -m -S torrent /usr/bin/rtorrent 

It was so easy to set up [no scripting involved ] that I felt I needed to share this information.