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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