On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:17, David selby wrote:
Hello
I have been trying to get cron to execute programs at set times, As a test I am trying to execute dillo (loads fast!) I setup cron as user testbed to execute dillo every five mins, I get the following ......
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 20 11:10:01 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from testbed by debian with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:10:01 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/X11R6/bin/dillo X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/testbed> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=testbed> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: CronDaemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:10:01 +0100
Setting locale to C
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
OK so i know its something to do with $DISPLAY, I tried setting DISPLAY=:0.0 in a shell then execute dillo, no go ...
I know cron works AOK on non x programs
Can anyone advise ?
Dave
Normally an x program should obey to the -display flag for example if you switch to console, login as root and type
xterm -display :0
A root xterm should appear on you X display. I've tried it with dillo here but dillo just ignores the flag (not implemented yet ?). So try it with a more basic X application like xterm, xclock, xbill ;) ... those should work when you specify the -display flag but first test it from console to verify it works.
hth
Elie De Brauwer
PS works with mozilla mozilla --display=:0
Dave
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