On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:26:55 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:59:41PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/1/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I struggled for a while to figure out how to do exactly this,
without
success. I believe that cron does not work, since (at least
some)
ncurses apps insist on being run from a terminal.
if you enter the "set" command in bash you get a list of bash
variables that are accessible to all programms that you execute.
This
is called "the bash environment" (see [1] for more info). A lot of
programms really need to check the values of some of these variables
to execute. Cron has only a small portion of them set so a lot of
programms fail when run from cron (can't tell if this is your
specific
case though)
What if you have cron run su - [user]? That should set up a login
environment.
I tried (using at) 'su - username mc' and received a mail stating:
su: must be run from a terminal
I missed most of this thread, so this may not be what you're looking
for, but has anyone suggested "rungetty", yet?
Package: rungetty
State: not installed
Version: 1.2-10
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Uncompressed Size: 77.8k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6)
Description: minimal console getty that can run any process
rungetty might be the getty you were looking for. It is able to run any
program, not just login. If a different program than login is used it
usually
is run as nobody:nogroup, or the user/group specified on the
commandline.
rungetty can even be configured to autologin, under certain
circumstances. See
the manual page for more information.
You have to change some lines in /etc/inittab for having any effect
after
installing the package. rungetty is based on mingetty and therefore not
suitable for serial use.
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