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Re: [SLE] start X app from cron
- From: Phil Burness <pburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:44:45 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200511232154.05361.pburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 21:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> I seem to have gone brain dead, maybe normal... I cannot start an X
> app from cron. All my efforts have presented: cannot connect to X server
>
> ie: /opt/kde3/bin/kstart --desktop 4 /usr/bin/smtm.
> results in an email: kstart: cannot connect to X server
>
> not a problem with smtm, a perl/Tk app.
> ie: /usr/bin/smtm
> works
>
> --
> Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
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are you running the cron task as your login user? i.e. is xhosts disallowing
the access?
Phil
> I seem to have gone brain dead, maybe normal... I cannot start an X
> app from cron. All my efforts have presented: cannot connect to X server
>
> ie: /opt/kde3/bin/kstart --desktop 4 /usr/bin/smtm.
> results in an email: kstart: cannot connect to X server
>
> not a problem with smtm, a perl/Tk app.
> ie: /usr/bin/smtm
> works
>
> --
> Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535
> http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
> HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2
are you running the cron task as your login user? i.e. is xhosts disallowing
the access?
Phil
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