Scripts behave differently under cron or double-click
Scripts and commands run from cron, a desktop double-click or xterm behave differently than they do in a terminal.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 10 January 2026 · last reported 26 July 2026
What's going wrong
Scripts and shell commands work from a terminal but fail when launched another way: a cron job plays no sound and shows no output, a double-click launcher opens a terminal only some of the time, and an xterm started with a custom prompt closes at once or has no prompt.
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