On Monday 21 December 2020 09:41:12 Michael via tde-users wrote: > 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. If successfull, there is no display. None needed > 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.) I cannot setuid or seteuid, crontabs error checking says that a bad minute error. Do obviously that isn't how its done. Tomas was good enough to dig up some dcop docs but it appears that I'll have to write a script to wrap those commands up after setting up an env and registering with dcop each and every time I want to automate this. Docs by doxygen are best described as contaminated by excess verbiage. Hopefully I can find something usable. Thanks Michael. > 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@trinity >desktop.org Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ 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
