On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 01:18:15PM -0500, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> This seems to work:
> 
> amplot /var/backups/campus/log/amdump.1
> 
> Running under the amanda user.
> 
> However, the issue now is the attempt to write the output to the X11 terminal:
> 
> 
> gnuplot: unable to open display ''
> gnuplot: X11 aborted.
> 
> Not sure what all that's about. So I'm doing a bit of hacking on the
> gnuplot script to have it write the results out to a png file.
> 
You have the permissions on your X screen restrictive (as they
should probably be).  Thus if you logged in a nathan and ran
a program that needs the screen it cannot.

The "xhost" command controls the access permissions.

jl
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