cron/dbus problem?
John (J5) Palmieri
johnp at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 16:51:32 UTC 2006
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?
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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>
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