Cron and at behavior in X

Using Sarge, current updates.

Based on conversations I've had on the IRC channel, I know that entering a
line into crontab such as 'x-app:0.0' will fire off an X application
without returning an error that it can't find a display, or similarly if I
set DISPLAY=:0.0 at the top of the crontab. Am I correct then in assuming
that this behavior will be the same if I do something similar for an at
job?

-Dennis Carr


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