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|    Richard Falken to Alan Ianson    |
|    BBS question    |
|    15 Dec 19 07:08:50    |
      TZUTC: -0800       MSGID: 5898.linux_bb@1:103/705 225b998c       REPLY: 1:153/757 5df56d6e       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Win32 Sep 20 2019 MSC 1922       TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.148 Dec 12 2019 GCC 6.3.0       COLS: 80       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.103        Re: BBS question        By: Alan Ianson to Greg Youngblood on Sat Dec 14 2019 03:11 pm               >        > 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.       --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 90/1 103/705 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/0 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/275 354 426 452 616 981 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 103/705 280/464 229/426           |
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