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.
Cron jobs don't *have* a terminal size, due to having no terminal. > 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. What are you trying to do? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
