On Monday 21 December 2020 10:05:11 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > 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. > Tomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx dug up the docs for dcop at the kde 3.5 level, and that 8 pages of excess verbiage may contain the seeds that will make it work. The question then is: has anything significant been changed in the tde version? Thanks Michael. 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
