Cron leaves terminal open

[ka9qlq]

OK I go to Settings/system settings & try to set up some BASH scripts like I had in Hardy.
Every time one runs a terminal window opens ans has to be closed. Is there a way to switch this "feature" off?

[GreyGeek]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

That "feature" isn't "on".
What's in your script?

[ka9qlq]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

#!/bin/bash

#Look out! We be programming!
# copyright ka9qlq

cd ~/bin

date +%I,%P | espeak -v f4 -s 80-p=80 -w time.wav #make the wave to play
play pre.wav		#preamble
play time.wav		#hearold the time
rm time.wav		#housekeeping

[GreyGeek]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

Do I have your permission to make a copy and try it out?

Does ~/bin contain pre.wav ?

[ka9qlq]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

You do,and yes it does. It works fine it's just in Hardy it never opened, much less kept open a window open.

[vinnywright]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

just running it .....clicking it in dolphin I get the hour spoken out ...but no terminal window.

ware in system settings do I try setting it to run?

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

I modified it a bit to suit my tastes:

#!/bin/bash

#Look out! We be programming!
# copyright ka9qlq

date +%A,%B,%e,%Y,%R | espeak -v en-us -s 160 -p=90 -w time.wav #make the wave to play
rm ~/time.wav #housekeeping
play ~/pre.wav #preamble
play time.wav #hearold the time

And used AutoStart under Systemsettings ==> Hardware to set it to execute at login.
It works fine. No console opens up. But, I would have to disable the KDE startup music because it and my time played on top of each other.


EDIT: I found that espeak was saving my time.wav file in the ~/Documents folder. I found no setting in the .gconf/espeak directory which used ~/Documents as a destination folder. Anyone know where that setting is hidden?

[ka9qlq]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

[quote=GreyGeek ]
I modified it a bit to suit my tastes:

And used AutoStart under Systemsettings ==> Hardware to set it to execute at login.
It works fine. No console opens up. But, I would have to disable the KDE startup music because it and my time played on top of each other.


EDIT: I found were espeak was saving my time.wav file in the ~/Documents folder. I found no setting in the .gconf/espeak directory which used ~/Documents as a destination folder. Anyone know where that setting is hidden?

That's strange, mine doesn't. I want to use chron to ron this And some others on at regular time. Some are time some time temp or forecast. Here's the window output that I have to close after each run

pre.wav:

 File Size: 128k   Bit Rate: 353k
 Encoding: Signed PCM  
 Channels: 1 @ 16-bit  
Samplerate: 22050Hz   
Replaygain: off     
 Duration: 00:00:02.89 

In:100% 00:00:02.89 [00:00:00.00] Out:139k [   |   ] Hd:2.6 Clip:0  
Done.

time.wav:

 File Size: 153k   Bit Rate: 353k
 Encoding: Signed PCM  
 Channels: 1 @ 16-bit  
Samplerate: 22050Hz   
Replaygain: off     
 Duration: 00:00:03.47 

In:100% 00:00:03.47 [00:00:00.00] Out:166k [   |   ] Hd:1.6 Clip:0  
Done.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
End of script execution. Type Enter or Ctrl+C to exit.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

[GreyGeek]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

Your output is exactly what I get when I run the "date ..." line in a konsole.

I saved the bash script in my home directory and marked it executable. When I click on it while browsing in Dolphin it works beautifully without a console popup, just as it does when it executes during KDE startup.

A Konsole usually pops up if the script is called from a menu item and the "run in terminal" option is checked, but that isn't the case with you. Do you have any special settings in your Konsole profile?

[ka9qlq]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

Do you have any special settings in your Konsole profile?

Well I don't know of any.

hen I click on it while browsing in Dolphin it works beautifully without a console popup.

Same here, makes no sense

[ka9qlq]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

Well I wish I could tell what I dis for other users but now it works right..............crazy

[GreyGeek]

Re: Cron leaves terminal open

In what cron directory did you put your script, and how did you implement the cron timing?
Currently, on my box, /etc/crontab shows these settings:

# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6 * * 7 root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6 1 * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )
#

Where did you put your timing sequence to tell cron when to run your temp and time scripts so that they were executed at times other than given above?

If I were setting up a script to run at times other than KDE bootup, I'd use the Systemsettings TaskScheduler under the System Administration tab.