[X-Unix] Cron problem - Again

[Marley Graham]

This is the error that shows up in system.log:

Jun 23 14:00:00 <user>s-Computer CRON[2011]: (isadmin) CMD (/ 
screenpicsadmin)
Jun 23 14:00:01 <user>s-Computer /usr/sbin/screencapture:  
kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window Server communications from outside of  
session allowed for root and console user only

(I substituted <user> for the actual user's name).

I thought that CRON ran as root; why would it have a problem in this  
instance?

Marley Graham
Aqua-Flo Supply
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On Jun 23, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> Have you checked your log files?
>
>
>
> On Jun 23, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Marley Graham wrote:
>
>
>> I have my screencapture program running under cron on my machine.  
>> So I figured I would do the same on some client machines for which  
>> I have set up an admin account. But it doesn't work on the client  
>> machines. Here is what I have:
>>
>> On my machine:
>> $ crontab -l
>> 0,30 7-16 * * 1-6 /users/marleygraham/screenpict
>>
>> Where screenpict is the script:
>> #!/bin/bash
>> /usr/sbin/screencapture mg$(/users/marleygraham/exacttime)
>> exit
>>
>> And exacttime is the script:
>> #!/bin/bash
>> /bin/date +%r > tempdate
>> awk '{print $1}' tempdate
>> rm tempdate
>> exit
>>
>> On the client machine, I have set up an admin user isadmin. I  
>> logged onto the client over ssh and set up the cron job using  
>> crontab -e. Then I copied the scripts to the  client using ARD  
>> copy, changed the owner to isadmin, and edited to change the  
>> username. So on the client I have:
>>
>> n$ crontab -l
>> 0,30 7-16 * * 1-6 /screenpicsa
>>
>> Where screenpicsa is:
>> #!/bin/bash
>> /usr/sbin/screencapture /isscreen$(/exacttime)
>> exit
>>
>> And exacttime is:
>> #!/bin/bash
>> /bin/date +%r > tempdate
>> awk '{print $1}' tempdate
>> rm tempdate
>> exit
>>
>> The files look like:
>> -rwxr-xr-x    1 isadmin  isadmin       82 22 Jun 16:40 exacttime
>> -rwxr-xr-x    1 isadmin  isadmin       67 23 Jun 08:21 screenpicsa
>>
>> I am not getting any files generated by cron. Any ideas why?
>>
>> Marley Graham
>> Aqua-Flo Supply
>> ==============
>>
>>
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