cron won't run notify-send messages

charlemagne-is-my-son · 01-04-2015, 05:42 AM

In my crontab, neither this,

Code:

* * * * * /usr/bin/notify-send "message"

nor this,

Code:

* * * * * export DISPLAY=:0.0 && /usr/bin/notify-send "message"

gets "message" displayed.

This works through command line, but not through cron.

I can't find much on this export DISPLAY addition, though it works when scheduling txt files to be opened through gedit, for example.

Thank you!

JeremyBoden · 01-04-2015, 11:45 AM

cron doesn't have a screen attached to it.

You could get cron to send mail.

charlemagne-is-my-son · 01-04-2015, 11:59 AM

Actually, I've tried to get smtp working (sSMTP, postfix) but that won't seem to work either. I started a separate thread on that issue but got no real takers.