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I tried the xvfb-run command and it worked from cli. Next try will be adding it to sudo crontab.
I will report tomorrow :)

I am using lightdm and tried the command (after finding PID) but without success on the first try (missing operator). I did not deep dive because xvfb worked

Big Thanks for ...

Thanks for your reply.
" Is this in the user crontab (crontab -e)?"

Yes this is at the moment in the user crontab. I tried it in sudo crontab -e too but this did not work.

If I do echo $DISPLAY via ssh connection
I receive always the 10.0

I tried it already with 0.0 etc

Hello all,
I am using FFS for years on my Ubuntu server. I am trying for nearly the same time to get a sudo cronjob for a batch sync to work without success.
I tried nearly everything I found in the web but all is stopping with this error message:

Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is DISPLAY set ...

Hello,
I have hard times to get FreeFileSync running in auto mode on Ubuntu.

I tried all suggested methods and writtings. Now i am able to sync as a normal user but not as sudo. and some files need sudo to be synced correctly. All issues are happening with Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is ...

Sorry for my late reply. I found finally some time to change it.

This is the log entry:
No protocol specified
11:00:01: Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is DISPLAY set properly?

for this cron job
0 11 * * * /bin/bash /home/homer/skripte/ffs_daten_backup.sh >> /home/homer/cronlogsudo.log 2>&1

my ...

Hello,

I read so many and tried even more but I am not able to run my batch jobs on my
Ubuntu 18.04 server by a crontab job.
Is there somewhere an working crontab command existing for sudo?

All attempts with a single command in crontab was without success. I ended up now in calling a bash script ...

Thanks for your answer and help.

When adding " env DISPLAY=:10.0 " this to my sudoer config file, visudo is giving a syntax error.

May I ask what exactly you mean with this:
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It is also pretty much going to be required that you have a running VNC session on :10.0 in that case. If you have a ...

I am trying now for a week to get my Freefilesync batch jobs running headless. I read a lot and this lead me to this set up:

sudoers.d/ffs

homers ALL = NOPASSWD: /home/homers/Software/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync

this is to avoid issues coming from sudo crontab commands. (read in a differ forums ...