Yes , But i found out about needing to set the DISPLAY from a terminal when i tried to manually run my script, there was no DISPLAY set at all, so i had to manually set it.
Still seems to me it might be usefull to have it when i fire up x < whatever> guess its juest a matter of adding it somewhere. cheers Michael Stenner wrote: > I think it says in ip-up (the sript, not the directory) that all of the > scripts are run with minimal (or even no) environment. So DISPLAY > probably IS set, but ip-up is run without any of these variables. > > The wierdness here is not X or linux in general. It's the way pppd and > ip-up work. > > -Michael > > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, John Leget wrote: > > > >I ran into similar problems fortunately i had had some trouble with > >junkbuster ( one > >way of looking at it <grin>) and remembered seeing the following in the > >"/etc/init.d/junkbuster" > >startup script > > > >"su nobody -c <command>" > > > >so i tried this > > > >"su myself -c <proggy to launch>" > > > >and found it complained about not knowing where the X display was > >so i set "DISPLAY=:0" ( in the script i set up for it ) and tried again and > >it worked > >fine. > > > >Im just wondering - wouldnt it be an idea to have the DISPLAY variable set > >when X is > >launched. ( And yes i know its possible to run multiple X servers but id > >assume those > >able to set that up would figure the rest out easily, me im just learning to > >crawl in > >linux >;0) ) > > > >Cheers > > > >Daniel Mashao wrote: > > > >> On 23 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > >> > >> > Daniel Mashao writes: > >> > > Is there any way to send the output of pppd to a file so I can debug > >> > > what > >> > > is happenning. > >> > > >> > Sure. Put this in your script: > >> > > >> > echo Running > /etc/ppp/running > >> > > >> > and the string 'Running' will appear in the file /etc/ppp/running if the > >> > script executes. > >> Thanks I did all these tests and indeed the scripts are running. I still > >> have to figure out how to have xnetload to load immediately after pppd > >> starts. It seems to be a problem with the display settings and path. > >> > >> /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ > >> Daniel J. Mashao > >> Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel > >> Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 > >> /------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 > Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305 > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
