Desktop Notification not working

[Guruprasad]

I have a script running every 5 mins as user mail.
I want to send desktop notification through this script.
I tried notify-send by no success.
Can anyone help me regarding this?

[anglican]

I have a script running every 5 mins as user mail.
I want to send desktop notification through this script.
I tried notify-send by no success.
Can anyone help me regarding this?notify-send is the way I'd do this. Why didn't it work - how were you trying to use it?

H

[Guruprasad]

#!/bin/sh
notify-send "Bhoomija" "Starting Bhoomija script."

I am runnin the script as cron job for mail user.

[anglican]

I am runnin the script as cron job for mail user.Then you need to be very careful about the user environment, and specifically the user's PATH. cron does not give you the same path that a shell does, it's much shorter. Give everything its full path in scripts. Use:

which notify-sendin a shell to find out what the full path is. Do the same for any other commands used also, including commands used in scripts that you run with cron.

H