On Tue, October 27, 2020 11:10 am, avv. Nicola Dell'Uomo wrote: > Hi, > > maybe I'm missing something trivial, but I can't figure out how to cron > sct(1) > > My user cron config works and cron log reports sct was executed, but > screen temp doesn't change ... > > Here's my user crontab: > > # $OpenBSD: crontab,v 1.28 2020/04/18 17:22:43 jmc Exp $ > # > # SHELL=/bin/sh > PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin > HOME=/var/log > # > #minute hour mday month wday [flags] command > # > # rotate log files every hour, if necessary > # 35 19 * * * touch > /home/nicola/sct > > 35 19 * * * > /usr/local/bin/sct 5000 > > # touch /home/nicola/sct was a test in order to verify I had not > misconfigured crontab. > # cron was tested with SHELL variable defined and then commented out and > the result was the same. >
It needs access to X. I'm guessing you need to pass the DISPLAY variable? I'm using sctd in .xinitrc (or .xsession) to slowing adjust the temp. Tim.