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  Re: BBS question
  By: Alan Ianson to Greg Youngblood on Sat Dec 14 2019 03:11 pm

 >
 >  GY> I'd like to know how to add the command to open a terminal window then
 >  GY> run those commands in the .sh file.
 >
 > I have never done that and don't know if it's possible. Cron is meant to run
 > commands unattended so they are not seen.
 >

It has been some time since I last did something of this sort, but you should
set the proper DISPLAY variable in cron and authorize the cron user to use
that display.

I think you can do it, but it sounds very fragile to me. Plus, if you don't
have a working display by the time cron triggers, it all will crash.

If invoking the scripts from a graphical interface was a must, I would forget
about cron and use my desktop environment to load a while loop that called the
commands periodically.
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