Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:59:41PM +0300, ndemou@gmail.com wrote:
> On 10/1/07, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300
> > ndemou@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On 9/30/07, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > I struggled for a while to figure out how to do exactly this, without
> > > > success. I believe that cron does not work, since (at least some)
> > > > ncurses apps insist on being run from a terminal.
> > >
> if you enter the "set" command in bash you get a list of bash
> variables that are accessible to all programms that you execute. This
> is called "the bash environment" (see [1] for more info). A lot of
> programms really need to check the values of some of these variables
> to execute. Cron has only a small portion of them set so a lot of
> programms fail when run from cron (can't tell if this is your specific
> case though)
What if you have cron run su - [user]? That should set up a login
environment.
Doug.
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