Cron + Dbus

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 17 March 2008 13:33:13 Adrián Bravo Navarro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are developing a snapshot/backup system supported by inotify and cron in
> python (www.hdlorean.com or http://launchpad.net/hdlorean). We are having
> some trouble with dbus env variables and Cron. We would like that cron
> calls some of the daemon methods trhough dbus, however as Cron runs a
> non-interactive shell, the DBUS_ADDRESS env variable is not set, so it
> cannot be used. I've been trying to use dbus-autolaunch to solve that
> problem, but it failed.
>
> We will thank any help or ideas you could bring.

There's no need for environment variables and the system bus.

You shouldn't access the session bus because you're out of the session.

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