Hi Phil, Thanks so much for the reply, however I think I didn't explain my problem clearly. The script is already on the same server, I just need the Perl script to attach to a display port (localhost:25 in this case) when it is run nightly via cron, as the script creates images that need an X window to process in. The point of me showing I can successfully attach to the port via vncviewer was purely to demonstrate that I have everything related to VNC working in a stable environment.
After trawling the VNC mailing list archives all day yesterday I saw a couple of threads about Xvfb - which might be all I need. However, I cannot pass my Perl script a display argument, so I need to somehow force the script to use the localhost:25 port. Hence why I had been attempting to export the DISPLAY variable in my wrapper script (attached again below). hostname{user}1% cat mywrapper.sh #!/bin/sh DISPLAY=localhost:25.0 export DISPLAY /path/to/myperlscript.pl -args DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 export DISPLAY However, it is still not working. Best regards, - Rob > Rob: > > Why not just copy the file to the system from which U're running > vncviewer and run your perl script and gs there? The data being > exchanged between the viewer and the server is RFB protocol, not > PostScript or PDF ... unless U *want* to perl the RFB data, of > course. > > Thx, Phil Long _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list