On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:04:59PM +0100, avv. Nicola Dell'Uomo wrote: > I tried to pass DISPLAY env to cron without success: how is it done?
35 19 * * * export DISPLAY=:0; /usr/local/bin/sct 5000 > sctd is not a viable answer as it works just with fixed increments or > decrements; and from man sct: > > "sct samples the color ramp in interval steps of 500 with temp values > between steps being interpolated." > > So I doubt decrements of two every minute would guarantee white balance > quality... Have you had a look at redshift(1) in ports/packages? Cheers Erling > On 29/10/20 16:53, Joerg Jung wrote: > > > On 27. Oct 2020, at 16:10, avv. Nicola Dell'Uomo > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > maybe I'm missing something trivial, but I can't figure out how to cron > > > sct(1) > > > > > > My user cron config works and cron log reports sct was executed, but > > > screen temp doesn't change ... > > > > > > Here's my user crontab: > > > > > > # $OpenBSD: crontab,v 1.28 2020/04/18 17:22:43 jmc Exp $ > > > # > > > # SHELL=/bin/sh > > > PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin > > > HOME=/var/log > > > # > > > #minute hour mday month wday [flags] command > > > # > > > # rotate log files every hour, if necessary > > > # 35 19 * * * touch /home/nicola/sct > > > > > > 35 19 * * * /usr/local/bin/sct 5000 > > > > > > # touch /home/nicola/sct was a test in order to verify I had not > > > misconfigured crontab. > > > # cron was tested with SHELL variable defined and then commented out and > > > the result was the same. > > FYI, there is a small sctd in the sct package, which probably > > does exactly what you try to achieve manually here.
