[X-Unix] Cron problem - Again

[Eric F Crist]

Marley,

CRON, itself, runs as root but a process in a user's crontab entry  
will run as that user.  If you must have this work, put these  
programs in root's crontab file.

HTH

On Jun 23, 2005, at 4:54 PM, Marley Graham wrote:

> 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
> ==============
>
> 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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