Dear list,
Back in 2006, someone wrote the following:
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* From: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d jacobfeuerborn conversis de>
* To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list
redhat com>
* Subject: cron/dbus problem?
* Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:13:25 +0100Given the (puzzling) absence of
an alarm/reminder applet for the gnome panel I tried (ab)using Tomboy for this
purpose but hit a problem involving Cron and DBus. When I call "tomboy
--open-note Alarm" the respective notes pops up but when I put the same command
in the crontab I get this: Unhandled Exception: DBus.DBusException: Unable to
determine the address of the message bus
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)
Does anyone have an idea why the session bus seems to be available from a
regular shell but not from cron?
Regards,
Dennis
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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
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