Hi Tzafrir, Your solution did it !
Thanks, Amichai. On Saturday 08 February 2003 21:37, you wrote: > 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"). ================================================================= 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]
