rsync script [SOLVED]

ralvez · 2012-03-10 19:51:41

Hi guys,

I have a little problem that is possible someone knows the answer to
I used to back up my system with a GUI program, but lately it began to give me grief so I decided to go the "old Unix way" and started using rsync.

The program works well (and FAST!!) and I'm most happy with the results but this is my problem:
I like to have a popup tell me that the backups are running. I have used in the past, with success I may add, kdialog to do just that.

Now with my new script and rsync it's not working.

To be clear... the backups happen on time and as they should but I get no message from kdialog to let me know.

The back up script runs from crontab.

Here is the script:

#!/bin/bash

SOURCE=$HOME/HTML
TARGET=$HOME/.net-backup/spitfire
LOGS=$HOME/bin/backup.d/Logs
EXCLUDE=$HOME/bin/backup.d

# backup report
function show_report {
    /usr/bin/kdialog --title "Backup Notification" --passivepopup "Running 2 hours backup" 10
}

# show on screen
show_report

rsync -azv --delete --exclude-from $EXCLUDE/'exclude.txt' $SOURCE/ceb/ $TARGET/EOHour/ceb/ > $LOGS/ceb.log
rsync -azv --delete --exclude-from $EXCLUDE/'exclude.txt' $SOURCE/SMART2012/ $TARGET/EOHour/SMART2012/ > $LOGS/smart2012.log

Here is the crontab line that runs it:

0 */2 * * * /home/ralvez/bin/backup.d/2hours

Am I missing something?

Thanks for any advice.

Ricardo

edit: If I run the script "by hand" not with crontab I get the kdialog message

Last edited by ralvez (2012-03-11 02:23:20)

karol · 2012-03-10 19:56:02

Have you looked in the logs?
Do you run is as root or are you using your user's crontab? Running X apps as root is bad & tricky https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ru … ps_as_root
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1035169

Please use [ code ] tags for posting snippets of code.

like this

Last edited by karol (2012-03-10 19:58:12)

ralvez · 2012-03-10 20:18:51

I'm using it as a user.
I did look at /var/log/everything.log and /var/log/error.log but cannot find anything useful

BTW I did use code tags but the wrong way: "<code>" as opposed to "["code"]"

I'll take a look at those links.

R.

jasonwryan · 2012-03-10 20:34:13

I've not tried to run something in X from a cron job, but you could try specifying the display for kdialogue to run on.

# edit: this works for me with notify-send

DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/notify-send Cronjob "Success!"

Last edited by jasonwryan (2012-03-10 20:48:28)

ralvez · 2012-03-11 02:22:52

@jasonwryan,

You are the man!!
Yes... adding the "DISPLAY=:0.0" did it!!

Thank you all for the help.

R.

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#1 2012-03-10 19:51:41

rsync script [SOLVED]

#2 2012-03-10 19:56:02

Re: rsync script [SOLVED]

#3 2012-03-10 20:18:51

Re: rsync script [SOLVED]

#4 2012-03-10 20:34:13

Re: rsync script [SOLVED]

#5 2012-03-11 02:22:52

Re: rsync script [SOLVED]

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