[clug] Cron environment

[Damien Elmes]

"Geoff Smith" <gsmith at geoffco.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have a script that works fine when I run it from a command line, (it's
> the mozilla fullscreening F11 pressing python script that was posted
> here a while ago)... but when I run it from cron, it doesn't work.
> I'm thinking it's something to do with the environment that cron runs
> in. How can I give cron the same environment that I have when I log in
> using ssh or at the console?

DISPLAY=:0 <name of script>

(assuming you're running the cron on the local machine as the same
user as the X display)

Cheers,
-- 
Damien Elmes