Re: Trying to run one process as root, how?
You should set your environmental DISPLAY variable...
Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Bryan Walton wrote:
> Greetings to the list,
> I have a situation where I need to run one program as root,
> through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as
> non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become
> superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the
> following message:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>
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