Re: display popup message on X with crontab

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 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.

Karsten,

Not that way, but:

xmessage -file /xmessage.downmsg.msg -display :1.0

works.
But I cannot get that to work from crontab and at the moment crontab is 
not mailing any actions that I can find.

It works execution a script with that in it.

However, everybody (I have a 2 seater Debian) must issue xhost + from 
their session for it to be allowed.

H