Everything seems to work when I'm not using cron.

This command works from the prompt, but will not work when crontab
executes it (and outputs no error):
cd $HOME; /usr/local/bin/tmux new -d irssi > tmux_err 2>&1


On 4/1/2010 8:48 PM, Micah Cowan wrote:
> Stealth wrote:
>   
>> Is there a way to load tmux using crontab?
>>
>> Example: I do plenty of running things in tmux (namely IRC), and would
>> like the sessions created automatically when my server reboots. I did a
>> test using "@hourly tmux new <command>", but when the hour changed I
>> didn't have a new session or an error mail.
>>     
> "tmux new" expects a terminal, since it attaches to the newly-created
> session. Use -d to prevent that.
>
> But you might want to run some tests with "echo foo >&2" or something,
> to trace why you're not getting the warning messages.
>
>   

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