On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:32:09 -0500
Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote:
I keep my system updated daily to testing and that may be the problem
but still there's something I don't understand.
I have a script that is run by cron every 15 minutes to change the
background on my screen. Recently the script stopped working. The
strange thing is that if I run the script from the command line it works
as it always has. Actually, the script runs and does everything *except*
change the background. The line to do this is:
gconftool-2 -t str --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename $FileName
Why would that line not work when executed in a script run by cron even
though it does work when the script is executed from the command line?
A couple of things you could check...
1. Cron logs. If there is an error, it would say it there.
2. Like the other reply said maybe it has something to do with the
environment variables. Try using the full path of the binary as well as
the picture file name.
Good luck.
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