On Monday 21 December 2020 07:28:00 am Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > On Sunday 20 December 2020 16:54:40 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > > Now I am bumfuzzled. > > I put those 2 commands in MY crontab since I can issue them without any > errors. > > But my crontab can't issue them. > From an email I see this morning: > > Cron <gene@coyote> /opt/trinity/bin/dcop kmail KMailIface > resumeBackgroundJobs > From: Cron Daemon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: gene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! > Two questions. And I'm starting to get pissed: > > Why the hell is MY crontab sending me mail from root@xxxxxxxxxx > And if I can do it, why the hell can't MY crontab do it? > > Thanks for any enlightenment. No crontab knows about your $DISPLAY ;) . Check your display and add a line like I listed earlier. AFAIK all email from crontabs send from root? (Well all my servers do, but check with someone who knows the guts of cron better than I.) Best, Michael ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
