On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 09:18:05 am John Culleton wrote: > On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 06:15:45 am a.l.e wrote: > > hi > > > > > Looking at /usr/local/scribus_svn/bin/ there is an > > executable with the > > > > name "scribus." Launching it starts Scribus 1.3.9. Its > > properties says > > > > it is owned by root. Launching it from the command line > > as root gives > > > > me: > > > > > > [root at Devil8 bin]# scribus > > > No protocol specified > > > scribus: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > > > > > The properties for the executable only say that it is > > owned by root; > > > > there is no further information about the file. > > > > please, refrain from running scribus as root! > > > > it's not a good idea. > > > > ciao > > a.l.e > > > > ___ > > In general you cannot run anything from the gui if you have > signed on as a user and then done su in a GUI console > session to get root privileges. So at runtime use your user > sign in as ALE recommends. > > Building Scribus is a different matter. > My method is to build Scribus as root using cron overnight, > but then run it from my user name. Cron runs with root > privleges. > > My cron call is very simple. In the folder > /etc/cron.daily > I have a two line file that looks like this: > > /usr/local/scrib140 > /usr/local/scrib150 > > This file is made executable by the command: > chmod 777 (filename) > The texts of scrib140 and scrib150 have been posted before. > They also have to be made executable with chmod. > > Note that for my method the files > /usr/local/src/s140 > and > /usr/local/src/s150
Correction "the directories /usr/local/src/s140.." -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110622/d8587aed/attachment.html>
