On September 26, 2007, houh wrote: > Tx for the reply. > Currenlty Iam using Exceed and I believe it is like VNC. > > The issue I have is that OpenOffice looks for the DISPLAY variable else it > will not run. Iam not sure which config file this is stored in OpenOffice. > So running a cron script on a server that is not logged on, OpenOffice > (even with running it using the -headless option) will not run on that > server. Also, if I run OpenOffice with -headless option on the serer and > then I logout from the server, the OpenOffice process dies. I need to run a > cron script that fires a java app that uses OpenOffice on a server without > the need to set the display variable for OpenOffice to run and be logged on > to the server. > Please provide yopur feedback > > Hussein
Have you tried nohup? Allows commands to run similar to daemons Or bash shell's disown ? I haven't used these myself, just found them See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohup IanS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
