On Friday 20 March 2015, Gene Heskett wrote:
> From a konsole:
> gene@coyote:/etc/apache2/mods-available$ xhost +
> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
>
> Ooookkaaaayy.  If thats true, why can't cron do it?
>
> Wheezy gets more and more confused.  Or I do, but I like the former
> argument lots better. :)  Saves face at my age yadda yadda.
because the command has to run on that X session to be effective, cron is not 
running on the X session, it's running in the background not connected to any X 
session.

Gerhard