Nut upsdev - Sep 2015 - NOTIFYCMD shell script problem driving me NUTS

Either I am missing something or I am really STUPID.

1. I have added a user, named nutmon, to the nut group.
2. In upsmon.conf I have set RUN_AS_USER nutmon .
3. I have NOTIFYCMD /etc/nut/notifyme.sh and it is set as 755, so should be
executable by everyone.
4. I have the NOTIFYFLAG set as SYSLOG+WALL+EXEC, so the shell should
execute.

This is the shell script :

#!/bin/bash
#
# NUT NOTIFYCMD script

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin

notify-send --expire-time=1 "$*"

If I execute the script form a terminal as user john (that's me) the script
works as desired and I get on screen notification.
However, if I execute the script as root, nothing happens.

Also, I do not get any on screen notifications from upsmon .  If I have a
terminal open and unplug the UPS I get broadcast messages
to the terminal. I have reloaded everything after making changes.  What am
I doing wrong?
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:56 AM, John Hart <jsamcr at gmail.com> wrote:
> notify-send

 notify-send needs a DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADRESS to work right.  Look around
for code snippets to get this.

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On Sep 22, 2015, at 11:27 AM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:56 AM, John Hart <jsamcr at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> notify-send
> 
>  notify-send needs a DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADRESS to work right.  Look around
for code snippets to get this.
Ah, that notify-send. Another option is to launch the PyNUT app in your xsession
(or equivalent) - it will also display GUI notifications. In Debian, it is in
the package "nut-monitor". I haven't used this personally, though.

Either way, please let us know what we can do to expand the NUT documentation on
this topic.

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Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail