DCOP calls and cron

[Thomas Olsen]

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On Sun 18 February 2007 16:55, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 18 February 2007 8:12 am, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > I'm guessing the dcop call fails for some reason...?
>
> I'm guessing either a user thing or a $DISPLAY thing.  I threw some more
> debugging echoes in here.   What does it say when you run it from the
> command line, and how is it different running out of cron?
>
> ----[snip]------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> cd $HOME/Doonesbury
> REMOTE="http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/`date +'%Y'`/db`date \
> +'%y%m%d'`.gif"
> LOCAL=$HOME/Doonesbury/db`date +'%y%m%d'`.gif
>
> log=/home/tol/Doonesbury.log
> echo "PWD:     $PWD" > $log
> echo "REMOTE:  $REMOTE" >> $log
> echo "LOCAL:   $LOCAL" >> $log
> echo "HOME:    $HOME" >> $log
> echo "DISPLAY: $DISPLAY" >> $log
> echo "WHOAMI:  $(whoami)" >> $log
>
> wget $REMOTE
> sleep 5
> dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper 2 $LOCAL 1
>
> > ----[snip]------------------------------------------------------
>

- From cron:
PWD:     /home/tol/Doonesbury
REMOTE:  http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2007/db070218.gif
LOCAL:   /home/tol/Doonesbury/db070218.gif
HOME:    /home/tol
DISPLAY: :0.0
WHOAMI:  tol

- From cli:

PWD:     /home/tol/Doonesbury
REMOTE:  http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2007/db070218.gif
LOCAL:   /home/tol/Doonesbury/db070218.gif
HOME:    /home/tol
DISPLAY: :0
WHOAMI:  tol

The only difference is in the DISPLAY var. I'll try to add --all-users to the 
dcop call (as I'm the only user)

Thanks.

- -- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
	Thomas Olsen


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