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   Richard Falken to Alan Ianson   
   BBS question   
   15 Dec 19 07:08:50   
   
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     Re: BBS question   
     By: Alan Ianson to Greg Youngblood on Sat Dec 14 2019 03:11 pm   
      
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    >  GY> I'd like to know how to add the command to open a terminal window then   
    >  GY> run those commands in the .sh file.   
    >   
    > I have never done that and don't know if it's possible. Cron is meant to run   
    > commands unattended so they are not seen.   
    >   
      
   It has been some time since I last did something of this sort, but you should   
   set the proper DISPLAY variable in cron and authorize the cron user to use   
   that display.   
      
   I think you can do it, but it sounds very fragile to me. Plus, if you don't   
   have a working display by the time cron triggers, it all will crash.   
      
   If invoking the scripts from a graphical interface was a must, I would forget   
   about cron and use my desktop environment to load a while loop that called the   
   commands periodically.   
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