On 2 December 2010 11:14, Barry Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there ........ > > I wrote a little script for doing an rsync to a second hard drive. It > goes like this: > #/bin/bash > rsync -r /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc | tee >(zenity > --progress --pulsate --text="Backing up files ....") >backup_log.txt > killall zenity > zenity --info --text="Backup completed sucessfully" > > This works fine if I run it from a terminal, but if I try to run it from > a desktop launcher or (preferred) run it as a startup program, it fails > to do anything - doesn't launch at all. If the script is altered to: > > #/bin/bash > rsync -r /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc > zenity --info --text="Backup completed sucessfully" > > It runs just the way I expect it to. The thing is, I'd quite like a > notification to remind me that a backup is running automatically. Any > thoughts on this?
I don't know whether it is the whole problem, probably not, but I think you should provide a full path to backup_log.txt to be sure of where it is writing it. Is it possible that it is running but the log is going to the wrong place? Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
