[Discuss] cron question

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Ronald Schouten wrote:
> I want to setup a cron job that will lock my screensaver every hour.
> This is possible with the command:
> 
> /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command --lock
> 
> I can confirm that this works from the command line on my system.
> However, when using this as the command in crontab, nothing happens. I
> have verified that my syntax for scheduling a job is correct since
> substituting the command for another (touch foo.txt) works.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
> 
> Ron
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crontab -e

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@hourly /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-command --lock


Peter