On Saturday 21 March 2015 05:18:18 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 05:02:53 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Running a wheezy based linux here. > > > > While I as a user can use xset to remind the system of the monitors > > dpms controls, an identical entry in my crontab results in an email > > that it could not open my 0:0 display. > > Since cron should strip out every environment variable from whatever > its told to run - that's to be expected. > > > So I cannot "script" this reminder. > > You can. All you need to do is to define the needed DISPLAY and > XAUTHORITY in the script itself. > > I.e. > > #!/bin/sh > export DISPLAY=:0.0 It will not install, claiming bad minute > export XAUTHORITY=<your XAuthority goes here> > xset +foo -bar > > Reco
This what I have, but it will not install #!/bin/sh export DISPLAY=:0:0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/gene/.Xauthority # m h dom mon dow command */5 * * * * /home/gene/bin/makesig 30 0 * * * /home/gene/bin/sa-train-bayes 01 * * * * xset -display 0:0 +dpms 02 * * * * xset -display 0:0 dpms 300 0 600 error msg on quitting nano: crontab: installing new crontab "/tmp/crontab.O2BPk0/crontab":1: bad minute errors in crontab file, can't install. Its probably obvious, but I can't see why it fails. Thank you Reco Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503210558.44814.ghesk...@wdtv.com
