On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi Clan, > > I am trying to run a cron job to use the record command as follows: > > KDEDIR/bin/konsole -e /usr/bin/record -cv -t 00:15 > > I am using KCron, so it will be easier, but I get errors. When I choose to Run > Now in KCron, it runs perfectly: Opens a Konsole terminal with the record > app and exits normaly. When waiting for the designated time it doesn't. The > user runing it gets an e-mail saying: > > konsole: cannot connect to X server
Guy has already mentioned that for this task (and probably for almost anything run under cron) is better done without running an X client. But since the question was asked... You should run something like: DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority /path/to/X/program and its args (If there is problem with X authority you'll get a message about "connction refused by server" and previously something abut "anauthorized"). -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
