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

May be you can try:

* * * * * env DISPLAY=:0.0 sudo -u ravi /usr/bin/notify-send Hey "How are you"