[clug] Cron environment

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

The obvious problem is that the program doesn't know which X server to talk
to. You need to at least set the DISPLAY variable. :0 is the first local X
server.

Hope this helps,

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:02:22PM -0600, Geoff Smith wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
> -- 
> 

-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> (... have gone from d-i being barely usable even by its developers
> anywhere, to being about 20% done. Sweet. And the last 80% usually takes
> 20% of the time, too, right?) -- Anthony Towns, debian-devel-announce
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