Hello, I stepped in poo, and broke a cardinal sin, trying a script that I didn't 100% understand. Now my environment is a little bit jacked. Not bad, still generally functioning.
I was trying to get notifications to run from the command line, namely crontab. No easy task, at least, not as easy as I would have thought. I created and ran this script I found online: #!/bin/bash username=$(/usr/bin/whoami) pid=$(pgrep -u $username nautilus) dbus=$(grep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /proc/$pid/environ | sed 's/DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=//' ) export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$dbus /usr/bin/notify-send "$(today)" It seemed simple enough. It even worked a few half dozen times. Until, it didn't. I couldn't even run the script anymore, from the command line. I get the following error: grep: /proc/1700: Is a directory grep: 25836/environ: No such file or directory I tried to "man" up but can't find anything on dbus, dbus_session etc. I think it's as simple as messing up my environment. Can someone throw me a bone? I guess I could restart, and I assume that should work, but that doesn't really explain to me why it broke, which interests me more. Thanks in advance, to anyone that can throw me a bone.
