Re: user can exec the xset, in his crontab, its 100% failure

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

 Hi.

On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 05:02:53 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:

> Greetings;
> 
> Running a wheezy based linux here.
> 
> While I as a user can use xset to remind the system of the monitors dpms 
> controls, an identical entry in my crontab results in an email that it 
> could not open my 0:0 display.

Since cron should strip out every environment variable from whatever
its told to run - that's to be expected.


> So I cannot "script" this reminder.

You can. All you need to do is to define the needed DISPLAY and
XAUTHORITY in the script itself.

I.e.

#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0.0
export XAUTORITY=<your XAuthority goes here>
xset +foo -bar

Reco