On Friday 20 March 2015 13:38:37 Gerhard Zintel wrote: > 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 So I put it in my .bashrc. It works, AND I can now run a sudo command as before all this denial of service started that made me set a root password. But the only way to get rid of a root password is a bare metal reinstall. Sigh... Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>