I have given up on mail and .Xauthority and DISPLAY. Mail is too much trouble, and getting a root cron job to pop up a message on my desktop may never work because of settings in my desktop environment. At some point you have to pull the plug, and I have now officially given up on those approaches.
Instead I have just added the following line to the script: echo "$TS Home Backup Done Exit Status $?" > /home/jjj/Software/Rsync_daily_log.txt This works, and I have created another cron job in my own user crontab to use gxmessage to pop up the results of that file on y desktop at 4am. It will be there when I sit down at the computer in the morning. I probably should have done this from the beginning, but the efforts have been educational, so the experience has been useful, even if unsuccessful. Thanks to all who offered help. :) _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
