<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Thursday 21 May 2009 07:55:46 pm Sascha Güthling wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm trying to start a kde application with a shell script. The shell > script is called by cron. But I always get an error that the > application is a "KUniqueApplication". What am I doing wrong? > > script: > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/bin/kmix #(<just an example, but it doesn't work like anything > else I tried) > > That's it. When I call the script in a Konsole window it works (since > I'm in KDE) but when it's called by cron it doesn't. > > All ideas are appreciated. > > Thanks > Sascha Just to be clear, did you make a script called 'cron' or are you using cron to start a script? Alan</body></html>