*- On 17 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "Re: problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/" > On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 08:45:12PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> *- On 17 Jul, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "problem with /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/" >> > i want to start xnetload on ppp up, and kill it on ppp down. so i >> > wrote two scripts: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load: >> > >> > when i connect, nothing happens. if i type /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/load >> > at the command line, xnetload is loaded. if i then disconnect, the >> > other script kills it. >> >> I assume you are running X as a normal user. > > yes, but running the script as root, manually, works fine.
The shell will have different environment variables than a the scripts which have almost nothing set. > >> The scripts in ip-up.d are >> run as root and know nothing about X and what display to put it on. You >> will have to give xnetload an explicit -display option > > i've tried adding -display :0 to the command line, and it doesn't > seem to help. > >> and use xhosts or >> some other means of giving the root user on your machine permission to >> open a window on your desktop. > > i run `xhost localhost' in .xsession, so that shouldn't be a > problem. > > thanks though, Hmmm, still sounds like a permissions problem to me. I am not an xauth expert but perhaps it is trying to use your hostname instead of localhost. Try trapping the output of the command in the script to a tmp file and see what it is saying. xnetload ..... > /tmp/xnetload.error 2>&1 -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
