Re: Can't cron sct.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:04:59PM +0100, avv. Nicola Dell'Uomo wrote:
> I tried to pass DISPLAY env to cron without success: how is it done?

35 19 * * * export DISPLAY=:0; /usr/local/bin/sct 5000

> sctd is not a viable answer as it works just with fixed increments or
> decrements; and from man sct:
>
>  "sct samples the color ramp in interval steps of 500 with temp values
>      between steps being interpolated."
>
> So I doubt decrements of two every minute would guarantee white balance
> quality...

Have you had a look at redshift(1) in ports/packages?

Cheers
Erling

> On 29/10/20 16:53, Joerg Jung wrote:
> > > On 27. Oct 2020, at 16:10, avv. Nicola Dell'Uomo <nicola.delluomo@delluomo-morettin.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > maybe I'm missing something trivial, but I can't figure out how to cron sct(1)
> > >
> > > My user cron config works and cron log reports sct was executed, but screen temp doesn't change ...
> > >
> > > Here's my user crontab:
> > >
> > > # $OpenBSD: crontab,v 1.28 2020/04/18 17:22:43 jmc Exp $
> > > #
> > > # SHELL=/bin/sh
> > > PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
> > > HOME=/var/log
> > > #
> > > #minute hour mday month wday [flags] command
> > > #
> > > # rotate log files every hour, if necessary
> > > # 35 19 * * * touch /home/nicola/sct
> > >
> > > 35 19 * * * /usr/local/bin/sct 5000
> > >
> > > # touch /home/nicola/sct was a test in order to verify I had not misconfigured crontab.
> > > # cron was tested with SHELL variable defined and then commented out and the result was the same.
> > FYI, there is a small sctd in the sct package, which probably
> > does exactly what you try to achieve manually here.