On Saturday 21 March 2015 07:10:54 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Samstag, 21. März 2015 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > On Friday 20 March 2015 22:13:50 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 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. > > > > And fails exactly the same, my crontab entry cannot access my 0:0 > > display. Help! > > > > Thanks all. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Hi Gene! > > Your .bashrc is not evaluated by the TDE session till you open a > terminal. That's why I siggested to use the Autostart-shortcut :-) :) OTOH, my reboot normally starts at least 2 nests of mutitab terminals and kmail. So that I think in my case, is a non-issue. And, following Petters suggestion to put it all in an ececutable script in my own bin dir looks as if it will work. cron accepts that, and I can exec it, I'll know if cron can do it in 2 more minutes. Thank you Nik. 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>