Thanks to all who responded, In the end I choosed Xvfb - X Virtual Frame Buffer. So far it's working perfectly! Xvfb uses shared memory to create a virtual frame buffer to (for example) DISPLAY=:1.0 Because of this I wonder if at some point I'll have to increase shared memory segments, I guess we'll see. Sincere thanks to the following who suggested Xvfb: David Foster <foster@dim.ucsd.edu> Jonathan Burelbach <jburelba@phoenix.cit.nih.gov> Robert N Wood <rob@rnwood.co.uk> Matthew Stier <Matthew.Stier@fnc.fujitsu.com> Other suggestions: VNC Server www.realvnc.com: "Vandevegt, James Matthew (Jim)" <vandevegt@avaya.com> "Roetman, Paul" <PRoetman@CSXWT.com> dtautologin: "Heilke, Rainer" <Rainer.Heilke@atcoitek.com> ORIGINAL QUESTION: SunGods, I have a requirement to automate a process upon startup (probably a script in rc3.d) that will do: xhost + su - appluser -c "export DISPLAY=satori:0.0;xhost +;/usr/dt/dtterm" (I know, I know...X security...) Or perhaps I need to do something else....the goal is to allow an application that runs via cron can open a dtterm session which it needs & uses without manual intervention. If this workstation gets rebooted, etc. the job always fails unless someone manually logs in as the application user and opens a dtterm & does the export DISPLAY, xhost, etc. I can't seem to get this set via startup scripts...it complains with: Xlib: connection to "satori:0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xhost: unable to open display "satori:0.0" Is the problem because the workstation goes to CDE login screen & cannot be 'sent' a dtterm until it's actually logged in? TIA, Kevin __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Apr 4 18:19:33 2003
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