cron/dbus problem?

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de
Wed Feb 15 00:36:47 UTC 2006



John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:08 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:13 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have an idea why the session bus seems to be available from a 
>>>> regular shell but not from cron?
>>> Because the environment variable "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" is set in a
>>> regular shell, but not from cron.
>> Shouldn't this be considered a bug? What I was trying to do doesn't seem 
>> like a weird use case so I believe it should be possible to use DBus from 
>> cron like that.
> 
> And what if your session isn't running or you are running more than one
> session?  Which bus does the cron job attach to?

Good point. Maybe I have to look into writing a little reminder applet for 
the panel.

Regards,
   Dennis




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