On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:45:12PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 17 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/" > > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i > > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: > > > > when i connect, nothing happens. if i type /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load > > at the command line, xnetload is loaded. if i then disconnect, the > > other script kills it. > > I assume you are running X as a normal user.
yes, but running the script as root, manually, works fine. > The scripts in ip-up.d are > run as root and know nothing about X and what display to put it on. You > will have to give xnetload an explicit -display option i've tried adding -display :0 to the command line, and it doesn't seem to help. > and use xhosts or > some other means of giving the root user on your machine permission to > open a window on your desktop. i run `xhost localhost' in .xsession, so that shouldn't be a problem. thanks though, -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [empty black dead clean cold numb free alone afraid complete]
