Solved! Re: crontab not executing as regular user

[Antonio Olivares]

On Sunday, April 30, 2017, Dylan Reinhold <dylan at ocnetworking.com> wrote:

> mplayer expects to have an x window running.
> You could try in your script to default to to the first one with
> export DISPLAY=:0
>
> Not sure this will work when you are not logged in, but could be a start.
>
> Dylan
>
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','olivares14031 at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, April 30, 2017, Dylan Reinhold <dylan at ocnetworking.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dylan at ocnetworking.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does the command .dalarm exist in the users home directory (and not just
>>> roots home)?
>>> Can you run ~/.dalarm from the commandline as that user?
>>>
>>> If it does, change your redirections from /dev/null into a file so you
>>> can see the errors
>>> 30 16 * * * ~/.dalarm >>~/dalarm.log 2>&1
>>>
>>> Then look in the log for any errors.
>>>
>>> Dylan
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Antonio Olivares <
>>> olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear folks,
>>>>
>>>> I am having a difficult time getting cron to run a script.  I ran
>>>> $ crontab -e
>>>>
>>>> Added the commands
>>>> # min hr mon dom dow command
>>>> 30 16 * * * ~/.dalarm >/dev/null 2>&1
>>>>
>>>> Where ~/.dalarm has a command to call mplayer and play some music files.
>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>>
>>>> /usr/local/bin/mplayer -really-quiet -shuffle -playlist ~/.playlist
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Antonio
>>>>
>>>
>>> The error is as follows
>> /usr/local/bin/xterm:  Xt error:  Can't open display:
>> /usr/local/bin/xterm:  DISPLAY is not set
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>> Antonio
>>
>
> 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?
I tried it and it still fails :(
I have checked
$ echo $DISPLAY
and it outputs :13

I have changed it to :13 and now it works!  Thank you very much for your
help.

Best Regards,


Antonio
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