On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:20:47PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> i have a bash script called from a cron job. i want to change the
> terminal size so, within the script, i tried:
>
> stty cols 160 rows 60
>
> the result of the script indicated that there is a standard io error
> when this line is run from the cron job. it works fine when run from
> an xterm shell however.
>
> how can i tell the kernel the size of the io device from a cron job?
> whatever the default value is when the cron job is run is too small
> for my needs.
>
Cron jobs don't have terminals. Their output is normally attached to a
pipe that will send an e-mail to whoever owns the job if there is any
output.
If you're trying to set the size of your xterm when it opens try
'xterm -geometry 160x60'. Or have a look at putting stty in your
.bash{profile,login,rc} with appropriate testing of $TERM.
Brian
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