General :: ImageMagick's "import" Command Line Program Failing To Take A Screenshot From CRON Script
Feb 16, 2011
I wrote a simple command line script which is suppose to take my screenshot every 5 minutes.(using ImageMagick's "import" program)
Here is the script (shottr.sh):
This is working fine if I execute by hand i.e:
The script itself is being executed (I hear a voice saying: "Screenshot") but the actual screenshot is not taken.
Be assured that it is NOT permission issue (I placed a simple "touch" invocation and file was created)
May be if it's run from cron...it doesn't have a "window" so it can't take a screenshot from nowhere? If that is the case, then how can I workaround it?
To take a screenshot(or partial screenshot), I use to use the command-line, type "import <filename>.png" and then "alt-tab" away from the console (for me, xterm) and then (usually) select a part of the webpage showing up on the browser. However, I find in my modern X-window installations (I use osuse and slackware, with several window managers: xfce, icewm and awesome) the alt-tabbing bit doesn't work any more.To get by, I have to reduce the size of the console so that the bit I want to capture is visible as I write the import commandI figure this is an X problem, but it could also be an imagemagick problem (on that subject, I think I'm going to try out graphicsmagick soon)
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Executing the shell from cron, the output is: Connected to 197.0.0.78 (197.0.0.7. 220 Bienvenido al servicio FTP del servidor backup. 331 Please specify the password. 230 Login successful. 250 Directory successfully changed. 200 Switching to Binary mode. local: EXPO_APOT10G_20100531.LOG remote: EXPO_APOT10G_20100531.LOG local: EXPO_APOT10G_20100531.DMP remote: EXPO_APOT10G_20100531.DMP 221 Goodbye.
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