Cron/Xwindows

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at tarcanfel.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:43 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Cron/Xwindows
> 
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at tarcanfel.org]
> 
> > > I want to set a cron entry to open a web page, but cron
> > > reports "cannot open display", even though the user 
> > > (jonathan) who owns the crontab is logged in
> > > to xwindows at the time.  What am I missing?
> 
> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:26 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > what's your cron entry look like?
> 
> 0 6 * * * galeon http://www.slashdot
Don't you need to tell cron where the XWindow client is that
you want galeon to run in?