Re: [Evolution] Unable to launch Evolution from a cron job

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 21:31 -0500, Darrell Barabash wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 16:20 -0500, Matt Connell wrote:
> > My immediate guess is that cron doesn't know what X display to put
> > evolution onto.
>
> SOLVED and thank you Matt.
>
> This was exactly the issue. I simply added "export DISPLAY=:0.0" at
> the
> beginning of the cron script and problem was solved. That also let me
> use "notify-send" to put up a warning before shutting down.
>
> But, I'll probably put this on the back-burner. Regardless, I learned
> a
> very valuable lesson here for running cron scripts and do appreciate
> the lesson.
>
> On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 22:22 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > The wider problem is that (once again) we have to reiterate that
> > evolution-backup, contrary to its name, *is not for taking periodic
> > backups of Evolution data*. Its purpose is to help when moving
> > accounts to a new machine, and it's designed to be run from the GUI
> > (or at least from a user terminal). If you need to take a backup of
> > Evolution, just use your normal user account backup system.
> > Everything you need is already in your user account. That's all you
> > have to do.
>
> Thanks for that sage advice Patrick. I was trying to just automate
> the
> "backup" button but understand that is not necessary nor desired. I
> presume that in the case of needing a restoration, it would be
> sufficient to simply restore the  .local/share/evolution   and the
>  .config/evolution   folders?

In principle, yes. As regards restoring the messages, I prefer to keep
everything on an IMAP server, but that's up to you. Restoring those
folders should work either way.

poc