"sh: notify-send: command not found" in homestead on MacOS X about vagrant-notify HOT 8 CLOSED

Unless the plugin is disabled, each time the guest VM starts/stops; a Ruby script get's copied over to /usr/bin/notify-send onto the guest VM. Is this not happening?

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It seams that happens. Also there is /usr/bin/notify-send.bkp file. And I think it should work but for unknown reason I'm getting such error. Like I said. same vagrant file doesn't have problem when I'm running on windows.

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It sounds like the guest's notify-send is not able to find the notify-send on your host MacOS system. Have you created a script called notify-send and have it saved anywhere on your PATH? I provide some examples here https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-notify/tree/master/examples

It is important that the script on your MacOS system is named notify-send and the execute permission is set to it. Because that's what the notification server runs when it receives messages from the guest VM https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-notify/blob/master/lib/vagrant-notify/server.rb#L48

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Good point! Tomorow at work I'll try this. Still such message is not very informative.

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It seems that was issue. Somehow I have forgot to add a script. I also modified one of MacOS X examples to be able to run without any external apps with build-in AppleScript support.

Still, I would like to make somehow this error message more informative but i'm unsure how to do.

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Thanks for the AppleScript support!

To get a more relevant error message, might need to modify either guest's notify-send or the actual notification server.

I think the easiest and best approach is to have the plugin display a warning if it doesn't detect a notify-send anywhere on the host's PATH prior to starting the notification-server.

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I think if we could change

system("notify-send #{args}")

line (in https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-notify/blob/master/lib/vagrant-notify/server.rb) into

puts "Warning! notify-send on host os not found!" if system("notify-send #{args}").nil?

at least partially would solve the issue. If command is not found system always returns nil.

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