Re: xauth trouble
From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com.urgent)
Date: 01/13/04
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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:30:43 -0500
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:26:41 GMT, Mike Ballard
<dont_w@nt_spam.org> wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> I've read a number of posts about user starting X and root not being able
> to run X apps ("xauth list", "cp /var/lib/*/:0.Xauth", etc.). The problem
> is that none of these are working for my anacron jobs. When I ran rh9 I
> had no problem; now with gentoo it's nothing but trouble.
>
> root has a script for creating backup ISO images. It's started from
> /etc/anacrontab. This script wants to do an xmessage (if X is running) so
> that I know not to shutdown. But xmessage NEVER runs no matter what I do
> for root's xauth. So obviously root's xauth is not the problem or there's
> something else I'm missing. Anyone know how to fix this?
>
Do you do "DISPLAY=:0 xmessage" ?
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