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Bug#296876: marked as done (xvfb-run: does not properly look for xauth)

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Package: xvfb
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10
Severity: normal

I have a cron job that needs an X server to be present, so wanted to use
xvfb-run to make this work. However, there's an issue; my cron output
looks like this:

xvfb-run: error: xauth command not found

even though xbase-clients is installed. This seems to be because
xvfb-run looks for xauth using 'which', while xauth is installed in
/usr/bin/X11/xauth; using which will thus work if that directory is in
$PATH, but that is not usually the case when something is being called
from cron.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xvfb depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-2.3    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-3    compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information

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xauth is now installed to /usr/bin instead.

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