Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:39:01 -0800

> How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry?
>
> There is xmessage, but from crontab?

Set your $DISPLAY variable appropriately.

DISPLAY=:0.0 xmessage "My message"

.. should work, if not in your crontab entry itself then in a script. called by same. ":0.0" should work for most circumstances.

Karsten M. Self