[clug] running fortune from cron.

[John Griffiths]

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G'day all.

I'm almost certainly not doing this the most efficient way, but by way
of a learning exercise I've written a shell script (my first) to
generate fortunes, use enscript to convert them into postscript and then
using convert to turn them into png files, which in turn are displayed
by a "slideshow" screensaver.

The script runs fine when i execute it myself,

but when I put it in the crontab it can't find fortune.

(Debian woody machine)

the script is as follows:

#!/bin/bash
fortune > /home/john/sceen.txt
enscript -B -f Times-Roman20 /home/john/sceen.txt -p sceen.ps
convert -negate /home/john/sceen.ps /home/john/sceen/sceen.png

The crontab is:

01 * * * * nohup /home/john/sceen.sh &

and the error messgae cron is mailling me looks like this:

/home/john/sceen.sh: fortune: command not found

Any help would be appreciated.

Regs,

John
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