on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom (hvw59601@care2.com) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry?
>
> There is xmessage, but from crontab?
Set your $DISPLAY variable appropriately.
DISPLAY=:0.0 xmessage "My message"
... should work, if not in your crontab entry itself then in a script
called by same. ":0.0" should work for most circumstances.
Peace.
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