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cron job/gdesklets help

Since gdesklets seems to have a pretty bad memory leak, I'd like to have cron kill it and restart it once in a while. I've having trouble with getting cron to launch gdesklets, though.

Say I wanted to do it at 11 after every hour. I stick this in my crontab file to kill gdesklets:

Code:

11 * * * * myusername kill $(pgrep -f gdesklets)

and it works great!

The next line is supposed to restart gdesklets, though, and doesn't seem to work:

Code:

11 * * * * myusername gdesklets

I've also tried substituting "gdesklets restart" and "gdesklets shell" and neither works. If I go to a terminal and type any of these commands in, gdesklets comes up just fine, though.

Any ideas why this isn't working, or how to fix it??

Have you tried putting the full path to gdesklets?

Nope - the path isn't the problem.

It doesn't seem to work with any program that requires a display window (gdesklets, gedit, firefox, etc).

Someone on another forum suggested that it might be a problem with proper access (xauth) or setting a display, but I'm having trouble finding information on either of those in the context of this problem.

Here are the contents of my /etc/crontab file, if it helps:

Code:

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games



# m h dom mon dow user        command

17 * * * * root    run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly

25 6 * * * root        test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily

47 6 * * 7 root        test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly

52 6 1 * * root        test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly

50 * * * * myusername gdesklets

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