Try adding 'export DISPLAY=:0.0;' to the beginning of your cron entry On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Paul Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I was working on a script that displays a particular message on the > screen when a particular thing happens. To achieve this automatically > I relied up on the crontab. I used osd_cat to display text on the > screen. Then I discovered that the osd_cat > won't work with the crontab. Is there anyway to tackle this issue ? > Please help me. > -- > Regards, > Paul Davies C > GEC ,Thrissur > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
