Re: cron job question (for checking kernel updates)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 20:53:52 -0500 inode0 <inode0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Ranjan Maitra
>> <maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have a cron job running which yum updates all my machines once a day.
>> > All of these work fine.
>> >
>> > I also have a cron job which checks for kernel updates every hour and
>> > sends me a message if an updated kernel has been installed. Here is the
>> > relevant script:
>> >
>> > --- begin file called check-kernel.sh in my scripts/yum directory---
>> >
>> > #!/bin/bash
>>
>> export DISPLAY=:0
>
> I was wondering -- why, instead of this, the following would not work:
>
> export $(env | grep DISPLAY)

DISPLAY is not set in the environment used by cron. That was the whole
problem to begin with.

John
-- 
users mailing list
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org




[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [EPEL Devel]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux