cron & cannot open display
Hello
I have been trying to get cron to execute programs at set times,
As a test I am trying to execute dillo (loads fast!) I setup cron as
user testbed to execute dillo every five mins,
I get the following ......
From testbed@debian Sun Jul 20 11:10:01 2003
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Subject: Cron <testbed@debian> /usr/X11R6/bin/dillo
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/testbed>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=testbed>
Message-Id: <E19eB8j-0000ZK-00@debian>
Sender: CronDaemon <testbed@debian>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:10:01 +0100
Setting locale to C
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
OK so i know its something to do with $DISPLAY, I tried setting
DISPLAY=:0.0 in a shell then execute dillo, no go ...
I know cron works AOK on non x programs
Can anyone advise ?
Dave
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