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

[Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>]

On Saturday 21 March 2015 05:18:18 Reco wrote:
>  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
It will not install, claiming bad minute
> export XAUTHORITY=<your XAuthority goes here>
> xset +foo -bar
>
> Reco

This what I have, but it will not install

#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0:0
export XAUTHORITY=/home/gene/.Xauthority
# m h  dom mon dow   command
*/5 * * * * /home/gene/bin/makesig
30 0 * * * /home/gene/bin/sa-train-bayes
01 * * * *  xset -display 0:0 +dpms
02 * * * *  xset -display 0:0 dpms 300 0 600

error msg on quitting nano:

crontab: installing new crontab
"/tmp/crontab.O2BPk0/crontab":1: bad minute
errors in crontab file, can't install.

Its probably obvious, but I can't see why it fails.

Thank you Reco
 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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