On Tuesday 14 October 2003 21:39, steve wrote:
> I have written an perl script to execute another file, which happens to
> be a gui application - gedit. gedit is a text editor in RedHat 9.
> That's not the real application I want to run, but it serves it's
> purpose for testing - the real application I want to execute is a kylix
> gui application I wrote.
>
> So here's my perl script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> exec("sudo gedit & > /dev/null 2>/dev/null");
>
> Works great when ran from gnome-terminal with line like: perl myscript
>
> I need to execute this script from a web page, through a browser.
> When I browse to this page in the cgi-bin directory, gedit does not show
> up and I get an error in my Apache error log directory:
>
> [Tue Oct 14 13:13:30 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (gedit:17268):
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> How can I get this to work? Thanks.
Your problem has nothing to do with perl.
You have to run "xhost + localhost" as the user using X,
to allow your apache to display stuff on X.
Jason Viloria
www.jasonlinux.com
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