On Friday 20 March 2015 14:17:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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

As a delayed PS here, cron, despite my best incantations, is still 
sending me failure emails, cannot open display 0:0.

Humm, thats is a direct command from crontab to xset. Theory:
If I put an sh in front of the command, will that sh then see the results 
of the xhost + command in the .bashrc?

Worth a try I think.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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