On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 02:12, German Guillot wrote: > Well, damnit. No, you're not missing anything, but I obviously am. I > have a little script just like yours. I create a crontab with a task > for it. It just doesn't work. Other scripts with other commands (cat, > for example) are run by cron from my crontab, no problem. So it's not > that I can't program a task in cron. It's not that I can't write a > script to fire up a browser, that too works (run from the xterm). > > The only thing I can think of is that your X configuration and mine > are different, and mine doesn't allow me to do this. Got a lot more > studying to do. > > Germán.
Now I'm led to wonder, are you using kcron to setup the cron job - and is the user YOU or root or system? stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people. -- Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King
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