[Solved] Have Cron Job Open Terminal Window

I want to run a ping script every morning to check the liveliness and latency of specific servers. The script itself works fine but I can't figure out how to have cron open up a terminal window so I can see the script running.
This is what I have so far:
#runs /home/bran/pingservers.sh everyday at 8:30 am
10 10 * * * env DISPLAY=:0 konsole -e ~/pingservers.sh
But it doesn't open anything I don't even know if the job is even executing.
Last edited by brando56894 (2013-05-20 14:25:42)

I am unsure how to get the script to open a terminal, but the journal should have some information on whether the script is running or not and if there are any errors.
brando56894 wrote:
I don't even think cron jobs are running at all. I changed my job to
1 * * * * /bin/echo hello world
and it hasn't done anything...
As far as the job above, I just wanted to note that you have it set to run on the first minute of every hour. If you were looking for every second minute, you would want the following:
*/1 * * * * /foo/bar
Last edited by BluMongoose (2013-05-14 22:01:48)

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