[Discuss] cron question

[Ronald Schouten]

I am just running the crontab -e command (logged in as me, no sudo) to
schedule the cron job. My understanding is that this will default to
running as me. And since I can successfully run the
"/usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command --lock" command, I think believe
the cron job is running under the same user as the screensaver.

Setting the DISPLAY environment variable did not work.

Ron

On 18/04/2008, Steven Kurylo <sk at infinitepigeons.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Steven Kurylo <sk at infinitepigeons.org> wrote:
>  > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Ronald Schouten <ron at atomeo.com> wrote:
>  >  > I want to setup a cron job that will lock my screensaver every hour.
>  >  >
>  >
>  > >  Can anyone shed some light on this?
>  >
>  >  Is the cron job running as the same user as the screensaver?
>
>
> And it may need the DISPLAY environment variable set.
>
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