From: malcolmlewis@cableone.net.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:13:49 -0000 (UTC)   
   William Unruh  wrote:   
      
   > On 2021-03-19, Malcolm  wrote:   
   > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:05:25 +0100   
   > > "Carlos E.R."  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> Cron (or timer) is worse: no terminal assigned, so echoing the   
   > >> bell character will not sound.   
   > > Hi   
   > > The assign one in the service....?   
   > > Environment=TERM=linux   
   >   
   > No. That just tells the system what type of terminal emulator to use.   
   > It does not assign a tty to the service. Ie, when cron starts, where   
   > is it supposed to send the output and where get its input from. It   
   > assumes that there is nowhere to send the output to ( except perhaps   
   > to mail) and nowhere to get input from.   
   > >   
   Hi   
   Sure, that's just a snippet for assigning a terminal in a service. As   
   per my earlier posts shows a full systemd service on how I do it with   
   with the likes of htop running on tty12....  Have lots of things   
   running on tty's as have no need to log in, just switch...   
      
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