cron job question (for checking kernel updates)

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 07:55:51PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> 0 * * * * maitra DISPLAY=:0.0 $HOME/scripts/yum/check-kernel.sh

Did you try the things in the blog post I'd linked to? As I said in my
previous method, notify-send needs to talk to your dbus session, and it
can't get that from inside cron.

  http://earlruby.org/2008/08/update-pidgin-status-using-cron/

has a way of working around that.



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