# Adding a delay?
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [22 January 2021 06:03 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889 "2021-01-22T06:03:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Zuse](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zuse)
#### Post date: [22 January 2021 06:03 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889/1 "2021-01-22T06:03:34Z")
Hi,
Hope everyone is safe, and happy late new year! 🕶
I’m trying to add a delay/sleep to transmission. However, I’m having issues finding out how. I have Google it and found:
[https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-a-program-to-autostart/3703/1](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/add-a-program-to-autostart/3703/1)
[https://dietpi.com/forum/t/custom-autostart-script-not-working/1960/1](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/custom-autostart-script-not-working/1960/1)
[https://dietpi.com/forum/t/how-where-to-delay-squeezebox-service-start/1075/1](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/how-where-to-delay-squeezebox-service-start/1075/1)
etc…
My issue is /etc/systemd/system/dietpi-autostart\_custom.service doesn’t exist and it seems dietpi has dietpi-autostart. I have no idea how it works.
Thanks!
z
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [22 January 2021 09:13 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889/2 "2021-01-22T09:13:21Z")
Hi,
what exactly is the goal to delay transmission?
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### Author:  [@Zuse](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zuse)
#### Post date: [22 January 2021 17:34 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889/3 "2021-01-22T17:34:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Hi,
>
> what exactly is the goal to delay transmission?
Hi Joulinar,
Transmission will start before my VPN connects which exposes my real IP, I do have my VPN setup with a killswitch it’s just transmission starts up than my VPN.
I was hoping to add a delay to transmission to allow my VPN to connect first, even if my VPN fails to connect (for some unknown reason) the killswitch would kick in till there is a connection, again transmission starts just before the VPN starts up.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [22 January 2021 18:26 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889/4 "2021-01-22T18:26:30Z")
well you could try to add your VPN service as dependency to Transmission service. What VPN you are using?
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### Author:  [@Zuse](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zuse)
#### Post date: [22 January 2021 18:43 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889/5 "2021-01-22T18:43:15Z")
> [@](#):
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> well you could try to add your VPN service as dependency to Transmission service. What VPN you are using?
How would I go about doing this? I’m using Transmission web and I don’t have that many options. I’m using PIA (privateinternetaccess)
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [22 January 2021 18:52 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889/6 "2021-01-22T18:52:20Z")
do you know the name of the service pia is using?
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### Author:  [@Zuse](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Zuse)
#### Post date: [22 January 2021 19:26 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889/7 "2021-01-22T19:26:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> do you know the name of the service pia is using?
I’m not sure; I installed my PIA differently from other guides I found here, i.e. [OpenVPN with PIA?](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/openvpn-with-pia/997/1) and the git guide ended up with me formatting dietpi and doing a fresh install.
I installed TigerVNC from there I installed the desktop version of PIA
This method has worked a treat, and I can use the VPN killswitch and split tunnel. However, Transmission loads before PIA (which I’m guessing Transmission loads before TigerVNC), and as a result, my real IP shows till PIA kicks in.
I thought it would be easier to add a delay to Transmission to sleep x seconds giving TigerVNC/PIA time to start.
It is not the best method to install the VPN, but it works and is the most simple.
Thanks again
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [22 January 2021 20:10 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/adding-a-delay/4889/8 "2021-01-22T20:10:55Z")
basically you could add a sleep command to Transmission service definition.
```nohighlight
TimeoutStartSec=infinity
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 1800
```