<div>On 5/18/07, Dave M <<a href="mailto:DaveM@mich.com">DaveM@mich.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have a daily backup script that is by cron each night. If there is a failure during the backup process I would like to have the script to notify the user and, if possible, allow the user to choose to cancel or re-try. Is there a way to launch a message box or a dialog box (using zenity?) on a user from the script that is running as root? </blockquote></div> Hi Dave, One way would be to change the script and add another one to be run when the user logs in. Change the backup script so that, upon failure, it sets a flag or even a whole error message in a file that the user can read. Then, in the user's .bash_profile, run another script that checks for the presence of the file and generates the Zenity error message. I've never used Zenity, so I don't know about any of its specific functionality. -- Vince