Who's an X guru then ?

[tarn]

I'm trying to startup Opera in an existing DISPLAY from cron but, it has got me stumped (never was an X fan)
This is what I do at the moment:

As user fred who has a logged in X secession, I have a crontab = to
12 12 * * (1-5) /scripts/start_opera
the contents of start_opera are:

#!/bin/bash
. /home/fred/.bash_profile
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
/usr/bin/opera > $DISPLAY

This for some reason does nothing and reports no error

Any ideas? ...... anyone ?

 

[Annihilannic]

You don't need to redirect Opera to DISPLAY... simply start Opera and it should read the DISPLAY variable from the environment itself (i.e. remove the > $DISPLAY).

You'll probably find it's created a file called localhost:0.0 somewhere on your system. Annihilannic.

 

[tarn]

What a star (you) and what a plonker (me)
Sorted .... I guess you could say "I could'nt see the wood for the trees"

Thanks again.