I checked the /tmp/ directory, there were .X0-lock, X1-lock, ..., X13-lock. I became superuser, removed these and now $DISPLAY is :0 and all works well :)<div><br></div><div>The xterm window depends on the $DISPLAY variable, and because of this I was getting errors. Thanks to all who have helped me fix this issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Antonio</div><div><br>On Sunday, April 30, 2017, Lanir <<a href="mailto:lanir@cisns.net">lanir@cisns.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If it's just the video output that's the problem try checking out
this flag:<br>
<br>
mplayer -vo null<br>
<br>
Used this way it will not try to output any video at all and
hopefully skip the check for a display. If you only want the audio,
this may keep you from having a repeat issue later if your setup
changes or you're not logged in when it runs.<br>
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<div>On 04/30/2017 07:05 PM, Antonio
Olivares wrote:<br>
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On Sunday, April 30, 2017, Dylan Reinhold <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dylan@ocnetworking.com');" target="_blank">dylan@ocnetworking.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div>mplayer expects to have an x window running. <br>
</div>
You could try in your script to default to to the first
one with<br>
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export DISPLAY=:0<br>
<br>
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Not sure this will work when you are not logged in, but
could be a start.<br>
<br>
</div>
Dylan<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:46 PM,
Antonio Olivares <span dir="ltr"><<a>olivares14031@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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On Sunday, April 30, 2017, Dylan Reinhold <<a>dylan@ocnetworking.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Does the command .dalarm exist in the
users home directory (and not just roots
home)?<br>
</div>
<div>Can you run ~/.dalarm from the
commandline as that user?<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
If it does, change your redirections from
/dev/null into a file so you can see the
errors<br>
30 16 * * * ~/.dalarm >>~/dalarm.log
2>&1<br>
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Then look in the log for any errors.<br>
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Dylan<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at
4:05 PM, Antonio Olivares <span dir="ltr"><<a>olivares14031@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear folks,
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</div>
<div>I am having a difficult time getting cron
to run a script. I ran </div>
<div>$ crontab -e</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Added the commands</div>
<div># min hr mon dom dow command</div>
<div>30 16 * * * ~/.dalarm >/dev/null
2>&1</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Where ~/.dalarm has a command to call
mplayer and play some music files.</div>
<div>#!/bin/sh</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>/usr/local/bin/mplayer -really-quiet
-shuffle -playlist ~/.playlist</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I have setup a crontab for root user and
it is working there, but not as regular
user. I have checked and there is no
/var/cron/deny for my user. I have read that
I need to specify $PATH in crontab file as
well in documentation. Any ideas as to how
to fix this?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Best Regards,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Antonio</div>
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</blockquote>
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</div>
<div>The error is as follows</div>
<div>/usr/local/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:</div>
<div>/usr/local/bin/xterm: DISPLAY is not set</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Best Regards,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Antonio </div>
</blockquote>
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</blockquote>
<div>I am trying it out to see if it would work or not. I had
another xterm shell opened, so maybe that is why it did not
work? </div>
<div>I tried it and it still fails :(</div>
<div>I have checked</div>
<div>$ echo $DISPLAY</div>
<div>and it outputs :13</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I have changed it to :13 and now it works! Thank you very
much for your help.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Best Regards,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Antonio </div>
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