[kde-linux] crontab

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday 26 September 2005 14:06, neha gupta wrote:
> I am using crontab daemon to give me a reminder message on some particular
> times.
> But it always mails me the message and shows the line "You have new mail"
> in the terminal window,.
> Rather than getting a mail I want to redirect the output to a new pop up
> window but crontab does not seem to be able to redirect the output to a new
> window

You could use DCOP (via the commandline tool dcop) and theKDE notification 
service KNotify

For example
dcop knotify Notify notify "" "" "Message text" "" "" 2 0

When using from the cron job you have to add the --user parameter

dcop --user username ....

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtforum.org
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