I'm tryng to run a cron job that will open a terminal. The following is my user crontab (from crontab -e) SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=Dylan HOME=/ DISPLAY=:0 15 0-23 * * * gnome-terminal A terminal never opens, and I get the following error in /var/spool/mail/root (shouldn't it be in .../mail/Dylan??) <snip> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified (gnome-terminal:3016): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: --k9H4T1iI003017.1161059341/localhost.localdomain-- --k9H4T1iJ003017.1161059341/localhost.localdomain-- Google wasn't too much help, as these Xlib errors seem to be quite common. So how does one run an X application from cron? -- Dylan Type faster. Use Dvorak: http://dvzine.org
