This is perhaps a bit awkward problem, and I am not too confident that someone can provide an answer. The Java VM (this is not a Java releated question per se) needs the X Windows server (I don't know which part) to do any kind of graphical manipulations, including generating GIF and JPG files. I have set the DISPLAY=:0.0 for this. I have a servlet, that is a Java extension of a web server, that uses this to create Charting images to be sent back to the client. If I put Linux to boot with runlevel 5 (RedHat 6.1=X windows) it will boot all the way to the graphical login. If I at this point access the servlet, i.e it creates a GIF chart, over the Web, it will not be able to connect to the X server, and fails. If I login, and do the same thing, everything works fine. If I after that logout, again it will fail. Since these systems don't have a user, and are rebooted without human intervention, is there any way to get X Windows to accept connections prior to the login? Should I perhaps not use the runlevel to go to graphic login, and somehow start X without window manager in the boot sequence, and modify the script 'startx' and its related scripts? Or could it be that I should use another DISPLAY setting, indicating some kind of virtual display, since the actual one is not really available? Any suggestions are welcome. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
