[PLUG] Environment variable for a program

[patrick.t.finnegan.1]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Nolan Eakins wrote:

> I do not know if this will work in your crontab, but using the form
> "VARIABLE=value command" also sets the enviroment variable to value when
> the command is ran.
>
> Later,
> Nolan

There's another method that lest you do more:

make a shell script and run that!

eg:
------------run_it.sh-------------
#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=:0
ls -Ral / > /tmp/a
xedit /tmp/a &
rm /tmp/a
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(note that if you do that in crontab you'll get truely pissed at it really
quicky, especially if you make it fire up every minute or so. Also you'd
need to do an "xhost +localhost" in that user's session to make xedit be
able to access the display :)

-- Pat

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