updating quote prices by cron on Mac

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 23, 2016, at 11:27 PM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm updating the documentation for bug
> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639776> 639776 [1].
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> Can a Mac user please advise if setting up a cron job to do:
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> env `dbus-launch` sh -c 'trap "kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID" EXIT;
> /path/to/gnucash --add-price-quotes /path/to/file.gnucash'
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> works as it does in Linux?
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> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639776
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No, it doesn't work like Linux because dbus isn't available in OS X, but it's not necessary for the cron job to worry about it. Just run /path/to/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash —add-price-quotes /path/to/file.gnucash and dbus will take care of itself. Or not, it's not used on Gnucash 2.6.

Regards,
John Ralls