On Friday 21 September 2007 08:51:13 houh wrote: > Hi > Tx for your reply. > > The intent of this cron job is to automate the generation of > reports and saving them under > specified locations. The user is not expected to run openoffice > nor vnc session to get his reports. > The way it is right now is that I have a script that fires > OpenOffice on a server and another script that runs the java app > that generate the reports on the same server using OpenOffice.
Who is running these scripts and how? Is this initiated on demand from any user? > Currently the reports are generated on the screen and then saved > automatically and then the report closes. Iam looking for a way > where this process of generating the reprot and saving it is > hidden from the user without the need to logon to the server. I > cannot expect the user to run VNC session to get this working. > > Housein > > linuxmaillists wrote: > > On Thursday 20 September 2007 13:56:00 houh wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> Iam using OpenOffice1.1.5, and I have a cron job that fires an > >> application runs packs using OpenOffice API and saves them. > >> Currently, the server that OpenOffice is running on needs to > >> be logged on all the time so that the cron job will be able to > >> run the packs and save them. Is there a way to run OpenOffice > >> in the background without the need to be logged on to the > >> server that OpenOffice is running on?. > >> Need to mention that the way the pack is saved by running the > >> pack displayed to the screen first and then a call to the API > >> saveSpecificDocument will save it. > >> > >> Please advise ASAP > >> > >> Tx > >> > >> Hussein > > > > I assume you are running Linux. I think the program name that > > might work for you is Screem. You might also run a VNC Server > > on display 1-6. Log into the system with VNC viewer and start > > this process that you want to have running. Then just close the > > VNC viewer (click the X in the top right corner of the viewer > > rather than log out). Whatever you have running will still run > > because it is running in that display and session and all you > > did by closing the VNC viewer was disconnect your self from the > > server but the process is still running because you did not > > stop it or log out but it does not kill the process. Because > > technically you are still logged into the session just not > > actually connected. You can reconnect any time you want and see > > things exactly how you left them from the last time you were > > connected. This can't be done with Windows because Windows only > > has display 0. Another big advantage of a Unix based OS over > > Windows. > > > > -- > > http://24.197.142.167/ See the OpenOffice.org FAQ > > Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user > > friendly Linux experience! > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://24.197.142.167/ See the OpenOffice.org FAQ Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
