Re: crontab file: echo "test"

don wrote:
In my crontab file, I have a line with:

echo "test"

I get the results via mail. What I want is to have it
printed to my monitor. How do I accomplish this?

First what you get via mail is irrelevant and should most likely be
turned of.

First you need to have something of a popup program. You can use zenity
(Something I wrote a "radio" with once) or the like. Most likely you use
KDE, so use kdialog:
kdialog --msgbox "Hello world" 20
or
kdialog --title "Hello" --passivepopup "new world order" 1

In cron that will become very long, so the easiest is to set it in a
script that you place in e.g. ~/bin:
#!/bin/bash
kdialog --title "Hello" --passivepopup "new world order" 1

Then you place the script in crontab like so:
1 3 * * * /home/user/bin/script/ 2>&1
--
houghi
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