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Xref: sserve comp.unix.shell:12822 comp.unix.questions:43759 comp.unix.misc:10767 comp.os.386bsd.questions:7695 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!ipc6.lat.oz.au!wongm Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: How to direct cron output to a tty or pty ? Message-ID: <CJ38vz.1Hr@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@ipc6.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 1994 04:38:23 GMT Sender: news@latcs1.lat.oz.au (news) Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 21 Hi, I am writing some sort of alarming utils run from within xterm only, ie won't work on non-xterm environment. What happen is that, when a scheduled event is activated at the right time, it will simple write a message to the xterm's header as title , blinking and beeping, and at the moment I resort to using escape sequence, ie : echo -n "]2;message" to change the xterm header border! Also, I am using cron to do the stuff since the system I run doesn't have at, but crond will direct any output of a scheduled program to a file and mail it to the user, as a result my escape sequence can not reflect the changes onto my xterm. If I get over this problem, many of the existing time-based utils can be changed to be invoked by this simple util. Also, non time-based utils can be changed to run that way too, for example, biff and newmail! I wonder if there is anyway around this ? Thanks in advance, and email replies please. - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong) -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au