[PLUG] SOLVED Make cron send an e-mail upon completion

wes plug at the-wes.com
Tue Jan 28 21:58:53 UTC 2020


On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:21 PM Johnathan Mantey <manteyjg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm only paying half attention to this.
> You want to run as root, but you are using your own Xauth?
> I'm no X11 wizard, but that doesn't seem like it would work.
> Doesn't /root have a Xauthority file that should be used for root run
> features?
>
>
This only exists if the root user were to have logged in to X at some
point. This is disabled by default.

Additionally, the goal here is to pop a dialog on the jjj user's X desktop
from a command run by root.

-wes



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