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20000313: crontab vs. terminal

>From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon)
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 200003131749.KAA04130

>Steve -
>
>If I run C shell scripts from the terminal, it completes
>normally.  If I run the same scripts via the crontab, it dumps the core
>and writes:
>
>*** TERMINATING  gf
>*** Received signal 11 SIGSEGV
>
>to the log file.  I'm running within Solaris CDE.  I've insured that the
>DISPLAY is set as well as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  I'm running SNPROF.  Any
>ideas?
>
>Chris
>
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Chris,

Your script is probably inheriting your DISPLAY environmental variable
from your environment when you run it interactively- but not from cron.
You script should explicitly set the DISPLAY variable when running from
cron.

Steve Chiswell