[solved] Script runs differently in cron, than in command line

I have a script that I made to control the notorious memory leak in checkgmail:
#!/bin/bash
killall checkgmail
sleep 3
/usr/sbin/checkgmail-gtk
Now, if I run it manually
$ ./.scripts/r_checkgmail
everything works fine.
However, if I add the very same line to user cron, all it does is kill checkgmail process, but never restarts it.
Why?
Last edited by Lockheed (2014-02-11 11:52:55)

I'm assuming that checkmail-gtk is a GUI program. If so then you need to tell it which display to run on, try this in your script...
DISPLAY=:0 /usr/sbin/checkmail-gtk
Last edited by slithery (2014-02-11 11:38:02)

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