Re: [Bug-xnee] can't get cnee to work into a cron

[Henrik Sandklef]

Cron runs with no X. YOu need to start an X session first.

Have you tried Xfvb?

/h

Do something like:
----------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/sh

# Start virtual frame buffer server
Xvfb :20 &

# wait for it to start - not a scientific method ;)
sleep 3

# connect to the Xvfb display
export DISPLAY=:20

# launch the program to test
/opt/bin/program2test &

# launch Xnee
/usr/local/bin/cnee --replay --file /home/tester/program2test.xns







On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:29:49PM +0200, Bzzz wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 11:35:05 +0200
> Casper <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe there are some missing environment variables... I think you'd
> > better to put this cnee command in your user crontab :)
> 
> That I did, the cron is now run under my user's name instead of root.
> 
> There was a segfault but it was because I logged to /dev/stderr.
> 
> The /tmp/xnee.log and the e-mail shows everything's alright, but it
> doesn't work. I see my root terminal flipping to the next panel
> (because I did that at the end of the recording), but when I
> check my test site it shows the last login time was a manual one,
> not the cnee one.
> 
> This is my mod'op:
> 
> * I made a cron (into /etc/cron.d/) which is launched under my user's
>   identity. It check if the executable is there and if so execute it.
> 
> * The executable is a bash script that compute a delay before
>   execution & a replay speed (75~100%), then it launches cnee
>   as follow:
> 
> RES=`DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/cnee --speed-percent $RND_REPLAY --replay --file 
> /usr/local/NOIP-COM_KEEP_MY_ACCOUNT_AUTO/horde.defcon1.xns --err-file 
> /tmp/xnee.log`
> # Set an output to show if the command has succeeded
> if [ "$RES" > 0 ]; then
>    echo "AUTOMATIC CONNECTION TO NOIP-COM WITH LOGIN SUCCESS :) / RES=$RES"
> else
>    echo "AUTOMATIC CONNECTION TO NOIP-COM WITH LOGIN FAILURE :(((((((( / 
> RES=$RES"
> fi
> # Exit normally
> exit 1
> 
> 
> $RES has no printable value and if I strip "--verbose" from the command
> string, it echoes a failure, otherwise a success?!
> 
> JY
> -- 
> Lao Tseu say: Man that scratch his butt at night
>               awakes with stinking fingers.
> 
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