Adrian, reading your comment reminded me of something I read about
adding a display option to the script. So I added the line "export
DISPLAY=:0.0" and the script now works with the image being displayed on
screen at the scheduled time from crontab
regards
Tim H
On 26/06/2022 22:03, Adrian Warman via dorset wrote:
The reason is that there is no screen on which to display any windows.
A crontab 'job' is running in its own little login. It's a command line -only
session, hence nowhere to send graphical display output.
The 'no MTA' message is a different thing. The crontab task failed (nowhere to
display graphic output), so crontab would like to send an error report. But
there's no email service set up for the OS to use. MTA is Mail Transfer Agent,
which on Linux is typically sonething like sendmail, but also (typically) is
not configured and running by default.
Adrian W.
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