Seth R Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings fellow debheads; > > I would like to set my monitor power off times to be different during > the night than during the day. To this end, I have added the following > lines to my crontab (output with crontab -l): > > 0 10 * * * xset dpms 3600 0 0 > 30 0 * * * xset dpms 300 0 0
I think you have to specify the display, so try something like: 30 0 * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 xset dpms 300 0 0 The standard crontab allows variables to be set, so you can just put a line 'DISPLAY = :0.0' earlier in your crontab, which will set the variable for all crontab entries. I am assuming that you are running this in your crontab, as the same user that is running X, and not as root. If you want it in the root crontab, you have to give others permission to access the display, which is a potential security hole. -- Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
