On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 12:50:47PM -0500, Larry Brown wrote:
> Hello gang, anyone ever come across this?
>
> I have written a small script that will check a condition. If the
> condition check fails, it is supposed to produce a window in KDE that
> produces a message based on the condition response. This way I am
> alerted to the situation. I can run the script fine from the shell.
> However, I do not get a window when running it from cron. I have tried
> to use suid to run the script as me, but when running the script as
> another user it fails to connect to 0:0 due to security. Temporarily I
> can bypass that security by allowing another user to connect to my
> x-server, but I don't think I can do this from cron.
>
> Any ideas?
Cron doesn't run in an X environment. So if it's trying to launch an
X-based application (which is what it sounds like), it's going to fail
on that part. Most X apps launched from an xterm can detect that they're
running in an X environment and launch properly. But cron doesn't run
that way. I'm guessing that if you try to run any X app from a pure
console (not an xterm, but a real console), you'll get the same or
similar error message.
Paul
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