Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 22:39:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: jadeite <jadeite@light.pomona.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron jobs and X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970416223130.10694D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970416135226.10098A-100000@light.pomona.edu>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, jadeite wrote: > How would I go about getting cron jobs to execute something within X > windows? > > At the moment, anything I do tells me that it can't open display. You'll have to build a shell script that replicates the DISPLAY environment variable, so it thinks that it's in an x window. Then there's authentication which makes it's own problems. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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