echo "Make sure you have a crontab running with: %hourly 27,57 DISPLAY=:0.0 /sbin/upgrade-nutyx as an example for running the task twice an hour at xx:27 and xx:57 time Use command: sudo EDITOR=/sbin/vi fcrontab -u -e or if you not familiar with vi, install your favorit editor and adjutst EDITOR varible above or do: echo \"%hourly 27,57 DISPLAY=:0.0 /sbin/upgrade-nutyx\"| \ sudo tee -a /var/spool/fcron/.orig sudo chown fcron:fcron /var/spool/fcron/.orig sudo chmod 640 /var/spool/fcron/.orig sudo fcrontab -z -u When you're done run once '/sbin/upgrade-nutyx' in non root account. "