This, opening a dialog box, may not work unless you are logged in in a GUI desktop.
Just curious - will this work as written when that command is issue by Cron by root? I would have thought that it wouldn't, thought I have not tried. Tomas On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 19:47 John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:11:44 -0800 (PST) > Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> dijo: > > >Linux mail systems have three main components: the MUA (Mail User > >Agent) which is used to read and write messages; the SMTP (Simple Mail > >Transport Protocol) used to send and receive mail messages; and the > >MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) which examines incoming messages and > >forwards them to the proper receiver. > > > >Claws-mail is a MUA, similar to Thunderbird, Eudora, mutt, and alpine. > > > >To send mail you need an MTA; sendmail is the default while postfix > >and exim are widely used replacements. > > > >You have the e-mail equivalent of a telephone without a telco/wireless > >account. If you want to mail messages to yourself to need to add the > >transport layer. > > That is useful information, but I solved the problem another way. I > have long used gxmessage to pop up a list of Unicode key values for > IPA characters that I need. So just now I added the following line to > the end of my script: > > gxmessage -name Home/jjj_backup -geometry 1300x200 -center -fg black > -font "Junicode 22" $TS Home Backup Exit Status $?, Zero=Success > > I tested it and it is working perfectly. When I get up i the morning > that message will be in the center of my desktop with an OK button to > dismiss it. To hell with mail. This is even easier. Problem solved. > > Now to get to work on a script to back up /. The fun never ends. :) > > Much thanks to all for all the suggestions. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
