On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Lets get back to first principles then. How does a curses app know if its being run from a terminal? I can't read source and I don't have curses book handy so I'll guess: TERM= if it can look up that term in termcap/terminfo to see how to draw? The value of tty? Perhaps without an actual tty-type device it can't work? --- If you do your at su - (I forget the syntax) command but have it echo the env to a file, do you get a TERM set? Perhaps create a script that sets TERM and then runs mc. Then have at run that script? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
