how to make cron run gaim under my X session?

[Valent Turkovic]

I get an error when trying to start this script:

./gaim-start.sh
./gaim-start.sh: line 5: script-file=~/gaim-start.sh: No such file or directory
./gaim-start.sh: line 20: $script: ambiguous redirect

I tried to edit line 5 and change "script-file" to "$script-file" and
that also didn't work so I tried changing it to "$script" and it still
doesn't work...

I don't know enough bash to troubleshoot it.

Thank you for your feedback and help Mikkel.

Valent.


On 7/18/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > On 7/17/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> >> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >> > Hi, I use gnome-schedule as a gui for cron but I can't make it start
> >
> >
> > Hi Mikkel,
> >
> > I tried playing with at command and I can't make it start when I want to.
> >
> > gaim | at now +1 minute
> > - this starts gaim right away
> >
> You are trying to start gain, and pipe the output from gaim into the
> at command. This is not the way to use the at command.
>
> > echo 'gaim'|at now + 1 minute
> > - this does nothing
> >
> Trying to do the same thing.
>
> > making a script called "start" and giving it +x and then:
> > at -f start now +1 minute
> > - does nothing.
> >
> Your script probably does not have the prroper settings for
> XAUTHORITY and DISPLAY.
>
> > I tried reading man and googling but I can't find an answer how to
> > start gaim every day at 8:15 under my username "pero" that I log in.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Valent.
> >
> >
> A quick, cheap, and dirty script to be run when you stat the GUI -
> not tested.
>
> ================== cut ===============
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # A script to create a script to run GAIM at 8:15 am.
> #
> script-file=~/gaim-start.sh
>
> if [ -z $XAUTHORITY ] ; then
>         echo XAUTHORITY in not set!
>         exit 1
> fi
>
> if [ -z $DISPLAY ] ; then
>         echo DISPLAY is not set!
>         exit 1
> fi
>
> echo \#\!/bin/bash > $script-file
> echo XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY >> $script-file
> echo DISPLAY=$DISPLAY >> $script-file
> echo gaim >> $script file
>
> at -f $script-file 8:15 am
>
> ================== cut ===============
>
> This script only runs gain once, but if you have it run when you do
> a GUI login, and you log out every night, and back in every morning,
> it should do the job. Otherwise, you could add a command to run this
> script again at the end of the gaim-start.sh script. (echo
> start-script.sh >> $script-file) But this will also try to start
> gain when you are not logged in...
>
> To do things properly, you should probably cancel the at job when
> you log out...
>
> Mikkel
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