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
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