07-11-2007
EDIT : I guess I'm not 100% certain for your question, I thought that you want output of the cron command to be printed onto terminal, if yes, read my suggestion below, if not, please disregard.
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I think yes, just pipe the command like :
0 * * * * * /your-script possible parameters | wall
depending on your system type and with respective parameters. Read the man pages for wall, which actually will write the message to all users, so it may not be a good solution.
Instead, you can use "write" if present, from "man write" :
Quote:
NAME
write - write to another user
SYNOPSIS
write user [terminal]
It will be good if you test the command from CLI first, before adding it to cronjob.
I can't think of anything more usable at this moment, there may be more efficient solutions.
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SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
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SEE ALSO
mesg(1), talk(1), wall(1), who(1)
HISTORY
A write command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.
BUGS
The sender's LC_CTYPE setting is used to determine which characters are safe to write to a terminal, not the receiver's (which write has no
way of knowing).
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