Excellent! Glad it's working now! Kind regards,
Adrian W. 27 Jun 2022 22:36:00 Tim <t...@windriders.co.uk>: > Adrian, reading your comment reminded me of something I read about adding a > display option to the script. So I added the line "export DISPLAY=:0.0" and > the script now works with the image being displayed on screen at the > scheduled time from crontab > > regards > > > Tim H > > On 26/06/2022 22:03, Adrian Warman via dorset wrote: >> The reason is that there is no screen on which to display any windows. >> >> A crontab 'job' is running in its own little login. It's a command line >> -only session, hence nowhere to send graphical display output. >> >> The 'no MTA' message is a different thing. The crontab task failed (nowhere >> to display graphic output), so crontab would like to send an error report. >> But there's no email service set up for the OS to use. MTA is Mail Transfer >> Agent, which on Linux is typically sonething like sendmail, but also >> (typically) is not configured and running by default. >> >> Adrian W. >> > > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2022-07-05 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2022-07-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
