Question

trying to setup a crontab job, I have a sh file that runs

./fidopoll 0:0/000
./mailin.sh
./mailout.sh

I'd like to know how to add the command to open a terminal window then run those commands in the .sh file.

Thanks....

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Hi Greg!

14 Dec 2019 04:58, from Greg Youngblood -> All:

trying to setup a crontab job, I have a sh file that runs
./fidopoll 0:0/000
./mailin.sh
./mailout.sh

I'd like to know how to add the command to open a terminal window then
run those commands in the .sh file.

Why do you need a terminal window for that?

CU, Ricsi

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Hello Greg,

trying to setup a crontab job, I have a sh file that runs

Cron doesn't have the paths that your regular user has so it's always a good idea to use the full path to the executables when running from cron.

./fidopoll 0:0/000
./mailin.sh
./mailout.sh

The above should run if you are running a script from cron that first changes to your mystic directory. In the crontab enter the full path to the script.

I'd like to know how to add the command to open a terminal window then
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.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Re: BBS question
By: Alan Ianson to Greg Youngblood on Sat Dec 14 2019 03:11 pm

I'd like to know how to add the command to open a terminal window then 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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Hello Richard,

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 have never done that. It might be possible, I wouldn't know.

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.

There is nothing fragile about cron. It just gets stuff done on schedule. There is no way (that I know off) to see what cron is doing but it will go ahead and do what you tell it to do, when you tell it to do it.

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.

Yes, if you want to see some kind of output cron is not the way.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Cron doesn't have the paths that your regular user has so it's always a good idea to use the full path to the executables when running from cron.

Hay thanks, I'll keep screwing around and see what I come up with.


Thanks

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Hello Greg,

Cron doesn't have the paths that your regular user has so it's
always a good idea to use the full path to the executables when
running from cron.

Hay thanks, I'll keep screwing around and see what I come up with.

I use cron to touch flow files to poll nodes and to post my BBS ads on a schedule.

You can also do what you were doing (poll nodes and run mutil to import/export) with Mystic's events, if you have mis running.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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