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hello,<BR>
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I know it's late to answer... I don't know kpp, but with kcron I've tried (as user, no root) to launch an X command like : <BR>
<B><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">/usr/bin/zenity --display :0 --info --text "Test crontab"</FONT></B><BR>
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and it doesn't work, so I tried :<BR>
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<B> </B><B><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">xhost +; /usr/bin/zenity --display :0 --info --text "Test crontab"; xhost -</FONT></B><BR>
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and it was OK<BR>
I also written the line <B><FONT COLOR="#0000ff">xhost +; /usr/bin/zenity --display :0 --info --text "Test crontab"; xhost -</FONT></B><B> </B>in a file zen.go and have launched it via crontab: it was OK too.???<BR>
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I've added the line <FONT COLOR="#0000ff"><B>DISPLAY=:0</B></FONT> when editing crontab (<FONT COLOR="#0000ff">crontab -e</FONT>), but I'm not sure it's necessary<BR>
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P.S. : if you don't need X, you can send a mail to yourself via crontab using <A HREF="http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/">SendEmail</A><BR>
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Le samedi 09 décembre 2006 à 00:41 +0000, Marc Rosenthal a écrit :
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hello,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'd like to know if it's possible to run kppp from within a user's </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(preferably root's) cron.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've tried setting up a script in root's cron which checks for a kppp </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">session, and if one doesn't exist then start it...something like:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">*/15 * * * * /root/start_kppp</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The script works fine (when run from the command line), but when it's run </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> from cron and it tries to execute the "kppp -c PPP_ACCOUNT" it fails due </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to problems with the Xserver.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Here are some of the errors I get:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Xlib: No protocol specified</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">kppp: cannot connect to X server :0</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I've even tried using "xhost +" command from within the script but nothing </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">seems to work.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Am I trying to do something impossible here?</FONT>
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