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Alex Harford (alexh@dowco.com)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:26:49 -0700 (PDT)
I'm trying to run a cron job that calls a perl script to change the
picture in my root window. I think I have everything working, except for
the following error:
shell-init: could not get current directory:
getwd: cannot access parent directories
find: cannot open current directory: Permission denied
<more output snipped>
The rest of the output is the script complaing about the same thing.
I think it is wanting to be run from a directory, but isn't the point of
having a cron job to *not* run it from a directory? Anyway, if anyone
could shed some light on the subject, that would be great.
I could also write a sh script that would exec the program, sleep 120,
and call itself. I am assuming that would take up more resources than
cron, or should I not worry about it?
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