<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><tt>Dear list, Back in 2006, someone wrote the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </tt><ul><li>From: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d jacobfeuerborn conversis de></li><li>To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list redhat com></li><li>Subject: cron/dbus problem?</li><li>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:13:25 +0100</li></ul><tt>Given the (puzzling) absence of an alarm/reminder applet for the gnome </tt><tt>panel I tried (ab)using Tomboy for this purpose but hit a problem involving </tt><tt>Cron and DBus. When I call "tomboy --open-note Alarm" the respective notes </tt><tt>pops up but when I put the same command in the crontab I get this: </tt><tt>Unhandled Exception: DBus.DBusException: Unable to determine the address of </tt><tt>the message bus </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;">in <0x0009f> DBus.Bus:GetBus (BusType busType) in <0x00009> DBus.Bus:GetSessionBus () in <0x00022> Tomboy.TomboyCommandLine:Execute () in <0x00061> Tomboy.Tomboy:Main (System.String[] args) </pre><tt>Does anyone have an idea why the session bus seems to be available from a </tt><tt>regular shell but not from cron? </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;">Regards, Dennis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't know whether this is of use to anyone faced with the same problem, or to help with wider development, but I solved the problem by using the following line in a crontab: * * * * * export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=`cat "/proc/$(expr substr $(ps -C tomboy -o pid=) 1 5)/environ" | tr '\0' '\n' | grep DBUS | cut -d '=' -f2-`; tomboy (options) Sorry if this has all been sorted out by now, but didn't know where to post. Steve</pre></div></div> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com </body></html>