crontab Problems

[COKEDUDE]

I have 3 video's I'm trying to play as a playlist at 8 am. I've checked in the terminal and as a regular script that this works fine. Right now I'm just trying to get it working so I'm using wildcards for the time and day. I tried it with sourcing and without sourcing in the crontab. Then I tried to run it as a regular script with no luck. I've checked that my script runs fine in the terminal. I also did this with sourcing and without sourcing. I really don't understand what I'm doing wrong so any help would be appreciated.

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* * * * * vlc -L /home/vids/vid1 /home/vids/vid2 /home/vids/vid3 * * * * * /home/bob/Desktop/yo * * * * * . /home/bob/Desktop/yo

I have also checked the /etc/cron.deny and /etc/cron.allow and there are no problems in those files.

I set up a simple echo script so I know its actually doing its job.

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* * * * * echo hi >> /home/bob/Desktop/come

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You need to expose your DISPLAY to the cron tab entry, otherwise VLC will run in text mode. There may be other similar issues.

[COKEDUDE]

You need to expose your DISPLAY to the cron tab entry, otherwise VLC will run in text mode. There may be other similar issues.

How do I do that?

[COKEDUDE]

You need to expose your DISPLAY to the cron tab entry, otherwise VLC will run in text mode. There may be other similar issues.

Could anyone explain how to do that please?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You need to set the DISPLAY environment variable correctly. Some other variables may be needed.

[COKEDUDE]

You need to set the DISPLAY environment variable correctly. Some other variables may be needed.

I don't know how to do that. I have searched google for a long long time with no luck. Could you explain how to do that please?