-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/2009 07:04 PM, S Knox wrote: > Dear list, > Back in 2006, someone wrote the following: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > * /From/: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d jacobfeuerborn conversis de> > * /To/: Development discussions related to Fedora Core > <fedora-devel-list redhat com> > * /Subject/: cron/dbus problem? > * /Date/: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:13:25 +0100 > > Given the (puzzling) absence of an alarm/reminder applet for the gnome > panel I tried (ab)using Tomboy for this purpose but hit a problem > involving Cron and DBus. When I call "tomboy --open-note Alarm" the > respective notes pops up but when I put the same command in the crontab > I get this: Unhandled Exception: DBus.DBusException: Unable to determine > the address of the message bus > > in <0x0009f> DBus.Bus:GetBus (BusType busType) > in <0x00009> DBus.Bus:GetSessionBus () > in <0x00022> Tomboy.TomboyCommandLine:Execute () > in <0x00061> Tomboy.Tomboy:Main (System.String[] args) > > Does anyone have an idea why the session bus seems to be available from > a regular shell but not from cron? > > Regards, > Dennis > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Don't know whether this is of use to anyone faced with the same problem, or to help with wider development, but I solved the problem by using the > following > line in a crontab: > * * * * * export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=`cat "/proc/$(expr substr $(ps -C tomboy -o pid=) 1 5)/environ" | tr '\0' '\n' | grep DBUS | cut -d '=' -f2-`; tomboy (options) > > Sorry if this has all been sorted out by now, but didn't know where to post. > > Steve > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > The session bus is, by definition, local to a particular session. When you run a service in cron, it is running in a new session (because it has been launched by the cron daemon) and cannot share the session bus with your desktop. If you need it to share a bus BETWEEN sessions, that's what the system bus is for. - -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqzhYIACgkQeiVVYja6o6NnrQCffiq5+X+xpORFUlgMZwFRRg2e tf8An05tRWURnzogS/gnQU4OWL2iv6in =3JnG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
