[PLUG] authentication
Shannon C. Dealy
dealy at deatech.com
Thu Aug 8 19:42:11 UTC 2002
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Michael Montagne wrote:
> I'm trying to use gnomecal and cron to send myself emails with my
> schedule. All I keep getting are blank emails. I can run the command
> logged in as me but when I log in as root I get this:
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
>
> So that seems to be a clue. I thought crontab -e setup programs to run
> as me. Right? What do I need to do to allow this command to run. It
> is basically "gnomecal -e".
I don't think you are going to be able to do this (unless you want to do a
little code work, or submit a feature request and wait) because gnomecal
wants to access the X window display environment which you aren't going to
have when running from within a cron job. To verify this, try running
your command line when logged into a virtual console rather than from
within X. There is one way around this, if you have an X server running
when the cron job executes, and the user the cron job executes as has
permission to connect to the X server, and you set the "DISPLAY"
environment variable for the cron job to point to the active X server,
then it should work.
Shannon C. Dealy | DeaTech Research Inc.
dealy at deatech.com | - Custom Software Development -
| Embedded Systems, Real-time, Device Drivers
Phone: (800) 467-5820 | Networking, Scientific & Engineering Applications
or: (541) 451-5177 | www.deatech.com
More information about the PLUG
mailing list