Cron with notify-send

Question

I need to show a notification from a cron job. My crontab is something like:

$ crontab -l
# m h  dom mon dow   command
  * *   *   *   *    Display=:0.0 /usr         


        

Answer 1

If you are having issue that your notify-send script is working fine locally but it is not working with cron jobs then use this command. and replace "saurav" with your username.

sudo -u saurav DISPLAY=:0 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus notify-send "Your message goes here"