Hi,

I need help from someone. actually i am trying to run multiple "gnome-terminal" using bash script on Fedora. it works properly when i run by ./filename. but when i use "sudo crontab" its give me message "TERM environment variable not set".

my bash script mention below.

#!/bin/bash
TERM=xterm
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal

Well, you might need to export your variables. Your script really makes no sense, you basically created a script to just launch gnome-terminal.

If you need TERM setup, you need to have something like.. export TERM=xterm in there.

I also tried like.

export=TERM xterm
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal

but its give me following message.

X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=root>

TERM environment variable not set.
Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user.
The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted
in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the
program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable.
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s
xterm: DISPLAY is not set

Well, like I said, you have a script that doesn't make sense. You basically wrote a script to just launch gnome-terminal. If you want the variables TERM and COLORTERM set in the new gnome-terminal session, you need to run these within that terminal. The simple thing to do is to put these environment variables in your users .bashrc or .bash_profile, etc.

Once my GUI interface appear i want to run gnome-terminal after specific time period. my requirment is just want to run gnome-terminal using shell script and this script run automatically by "sudo crontab" like
"????? /file/folder"


--------Shell script--------
#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal




if i try to run like (./filename) its working properly. but i want to run this script through "sudo crontab". whenever i tried through "sudo crontab" it gives me error.

I also have been tried .bashrc and .bash_profile. they are not fullfill my requirments.

i really appreciate you if you help me out. thanks

Wait, you want gnome-terminal to launch from a crontab entry?

Yes, I think your are right.

It's just not going to work like that. Crond is a daemon, in order to start an application under your own session, it won't have permissions and or it's not designed to do such things.

What you might be looking for is the at command, but then again, I don't think that's going to work either.