Hi and thanks for the reply. I have issued xhost + on my machine(i am on a single user machine).However i cannot know if it will work until the hour passes by.I will keep you updated. I had another question.Right now it seems like everytime i start X i will have to do xhost + for the script to work.Is there some file where i can put the X server access settings.I googled around but all answers i found were either for KDM,GDM or XDM.I dont use either of these.I use starts to start my session. The man pages for xhost say to check /etc/X*.hosts however i could not find ne such file in /etc and nor did i find nething much in google. Could someone maybe tell me how to go about this. Also i have no ides how to have my own crontab but i will look around for that. Thanks a lot --Rishabh
-- Rishabh Manocha http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rmanocha **********Your Quote for the day********** "How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it." (Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting) ****************************************** On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Bhaskar Dutta wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > >>> On Friday 16 April 2004 09:47, RM <Rishabh Manocha> said: > RM> Hey guys, > RM> I use Esetroot to set the background for my Desktop.I use openbox as > my RM> window manager on a debian sid 2.6.4. > RM> I wrote a small perl script to change my > RM> background(www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rmanocha/projects/change_desk.pl). > RM> My main aim behind writing this script was to put it into a cron job > so RM> that my desktop background can change every hour without me having to > RM> fiddle with it. > RM> However the cron job does not work.It exits with this error: > RM> /etc/cron.hourly/change_desk: > RM> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > RM> Xlib: Protocol not supported by server > RM> > RM> Esetroot: Unable to open display :0.0 > RM> > RM> This script works just fine when i execute it from a terminal.The > RM> permissions on other scripts and this script in the directory is: > RM> -rwx------ 1 rmanocha rmanocha 80 Apr 15 01:19 change_desk > RM> -rwx------ 1 rmanocha rmanocha 300 Mar 11 14:19 hmailscript > RM> the second script works just fine for me and so i am wondering why > this RM> script is not working.Is it because the script is executes an > another RM> user(thought not likely since no one else has execute > permissions on the RM> script). > > your X server doesnt allow user 'rmanocha' to make direct connections to it. > thats because access control is enabled on your box. check the output of > `xhost`. should give something like: > access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect. > and, you are not authorised (the script is owned by user rmanocha, who is > probably not on the authorized user's list). check `man xhost` and do the > needful. > > cron is running as root, and it will never let any script owned by an > unauthorized user to make direct x connections. thats considered dangerous. > as ams pointed out, put it in your own crontab. or add yourself to xhost (i > would probably do the latter if i am on a single user system). > > regards, > bhaskar > > p.s. your script uses Esetroot without the `-d` param. i dunno what > consequences it might have. do test it for multi-user environments also. > > - -- > > - ----------------- > Bhaskar Dutta <bhaskie99 at yahoo dot co dot uk> > Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x01D5671C > GPG FPR: AA56 1EB5 D7E8 DD9C 298E 8F4D 375F D416 01D5 671C > - ----------------- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAf8mjN1/UFgHVZxwRAuJhAJ9cA3J6T6wCyEOPclawG+b8ZSCojQCfamS+ > 48lnGgAEVCL2EdVMR1m4m3M= > =zS/q > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
