DCOP calls and cron

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Sunday 18 February 2007 8:12 am, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> I'm guessing the dcop call fails for some reason...?

I'm guessing either a user thing or a $DISPLAY thing.  I threw some more 
debugging echoes in here.   What does it say when you run it from the command 
line, and how is it different running out of cron?

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#!/bin/bash
cd $HOME/Doonesbury
REMOTE="http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/`date +'%Y'`/db`date \ 
+'%y%m%d'`.gif"
LOCAL=$HOME/Doonesbury/db`date +'%y%m%d'`.gif

log=/home/tol/Doonesbury.log
echo "PWD:     $PWD" > $log
echo "REMOTE:  $REMOTE" >> $log
echo "LOCAL:   $LOCAL" >> $log
echo "HOME:    $HOME" >> $log
echo "DISPLAY: $DISPLAY" >> $log
echo "WHOAMI:  $(whoami)" >> $log

wget $REMOTE
sleep 5
dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper 2 $LOCAL 1
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D. Michael McIntyre