Am trying to create a cron job to open a web page at a scheduled time.
I have edited my cron using crontab -e
and append my job.
I wrote my job in a script like this: xdg-open (URL)
I saved this script in my /home/flicker
directory.
However, when I edit my cron (crontab -e
), it saves the file as /tmp/crontab.tIzXBv/crontab
.
After saving it successfully says installing new crontab.
I made my file script executable, but still failing to handle the job. I wanted the script to run at 14:30PM, so I added this line to my crontab:
30 14 * * * /home/flicker/open-web.sh
This is still failing to work please help. Here is my script below:
#!/bin/bash
xdg-open https://www.google.com
export DISPLAY=:0
? Also, what exactly is failing, nothing happens, or you get an error?