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.
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> Regards,
> Paul Davies C
> GEC ,Thrissur
>
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