[Linux-Anyway] Re: Executing graphical apps through cron
- From: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:06:48 +0100
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 23:27:10 +0100, Horror Vacui <horrorvacui@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The problem: cron (vixie-cron, that is) seems incapable of spawning an
> xterm.
It could be X preventing this from happening.
What's the output of this command?:
$ xhost
If you don't have "LOCAL:" in there then run:
$ xhost +local:
Secondly, should I assume you set the permissions on alarm.pl correctly?
(*with* the executable flag set...)
If running xhost fixes the problem you might want to add "xhost +local:" to
your xinit script just before the invocation of your WM. In my case, the end
of my ~/.xinitrc (on FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE) looks like this:
$ tail -n 6 ~/.xinitrc
xscreensaver -no-splash &
/usr/home/godwin/bin/xnumlock
xhost +local:
startkde
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