[clug] running fortune from cron.

[John Griffiths]

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and disco!

Thanks all for your help.

John.

Mark Harrison wrote:
> Hi,
> The environment might not be the same inside cron? Maybe try absolute
> paths like '/usr/games/fortune'
>
> On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 11:10, John Griffiths wrote:
>
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>>G'day all.
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>>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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