On Friday 16 December 2011 1:41 am David Hare wrote:
> On 15/12/11 23:12, Greg Madden wrote:
> > TDE 3.5.13 Debian Squeeze
> >
> > I was trying to run   'kcron' as root, from a root prompt in konsole.
> > 'kcron' is not found, I have to use full path '/opt/trinity/bin/kcron'.
> > This brings up kcron but trying to add a cron job causes a crash, the
> > crash handler pops up.
> >
> > I get this info from the terminal:
> >
> > "In file /build/buildd/kdeadmin-trinity-3.5.13/./kcron/ktview.cpp, line
> > 372: Out of memory
> > KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
> > KCrash: Application Name = kcron path =<unknown>  pid = 4347
> > kdeinit: Got EXEC_NEW 'drkonqi' from socket.
> > Could not load library! Trying exec....
> > kdeinit: PID 4413 terminated."
> >
> > I noticed that using the 'export' command, there is no reference to
> > KDEDIR(S) or PATH to the Trinity stuff.
> >
> >   I installed the metapackage  'kdebase-trinity', 'kdepim-trinity' and a
> > few apps, not the full DE.
> >
> > It seems like kcron can't find a library.  what sets up the TDE
> > environment for root ?
>
> You should probably be using <kdesu kcron> Kdesu is the wrapper to
> transfer X credentials. Bug 394 is marked fixed (but see 703) and kdesu
> mostly works here.
>
> I too use a selective TDE install on Squeeze and don't use sudo
>
> I can use kcron that way here. It will however crash like you say if I
> don't first highlight the "tasks" box for the user I want to set a new
> task for (usually root)
>
> If I do highlight the "tasks" box it works and the task shows up in
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
>
> Let us know, if that works for you.

Thanks, kdesu works, cool :-)

Previous installs (TDE 3.5.12), it seems, root could run a command from the cli, 
ie the environment must? have been setup pointing to the TDE stuff. Anyway kdesu 
works fine my my purposes, probably a better method, I don't have to use xhost to 
allow root access to the display.


-- 
Peace,

Greg