running scripts in crontab

[harry d brown jr]

Can you do a "whereis ret" to determine if there is another program called "ret" in your path. What does "ret" do?

[user_2001]

ret -- is a program that calls up a terminal -- like calling SAM up and then sends a message from within sam!!

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Colet,
Is ret a gui program?

Sachin

[Mark van Hassel]

You probably have to set the DISPLAY variable in your script.

[harry d brown jr]

Sachin is probably right about the "DISPLAY" variable, but if not, try this:

From a root login capture your environment variables:

env > /tmp/root_env

From your crontab script, add a line like this:

env >/tmp/cron_env

Then do a "diff" and add any missing variables.

[user_2001]

No ret is not a gui program more like a command line menu options!!

[Sachin Patel]

Hi
use FQPN for your program rat. i.e if your executable rat is in /opt/rat/bin then in script use

/opt/rat/bin/rat -c ?????? > /dev/null


Sachin

[Wodisch]

Hello Colet,

if I read your script right, you are using the C-shell
from within it. Well, then it will perhaps try to be
"interactive" and that would need a "controlling
terminal" which will not be available if called from
"cron"... There is an option for the C-shell to NOT
start interactively, though, you might try that...

HTH,
Wodisch