----- Original Message ---- From: Dylan Semler <dylan.semler@xxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:35:26 PM Subject: Open gnome-terminal as a cron job 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list you can try xterm, find it using $ which xterm on my system it is /usr/bin/xterm Regards, Antonio
