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ok i'll specify the display though not experienced with xauth i'll search for it.<br><br>as for cron vs gui well any advice?<br>i really need this service to be up and running 24/7 with no downtime<br>so i'm thinking of the following cronjob:<br><br>if netstat -ntulp | grep -v 4444<br>DISPLAY="localhost:1"; java - jar selenium-server.jar > /tmp/rc.log 2>&1;<br>else <br>echo "nothing to do `date`" >> /tmp/rc.log<br>echo<br>echo<br>fi<br><br># Can you advise me with a better idea?<br><br>thanks,<br><br>--Roland<br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: cameron@humbledown.org<br>Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 05:51:17 +1300<br>To: centos@centos.org<br>Subject: Re: [CentOS] selenium rc server - run it on a specific display help!<br><br>
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<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML"><base><div>You need to instruct it what DISPLAY to run on.</div><div><br></div>DISPLAY=... command-to-run-selenium<div><div><br></div><div>You should also need (I think) to do something with X authentication (xauth)</div><div><br></div><div>Are you sure that running it from cron is suitable? Seems very unusual for a GUI program.</div><div><br><div><div>On 5/02/2011, at 3:08 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><div class="ecxhmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Dear all,<br><br>i'm trying to run multiple selenium rc server on a centos box (different ports)<br>with developers connecting to it through VNC (different respective ports) to check their automated test result.<br>i can easily do the above manually (when it comes to running RC server).<br>though automating the process is proving to be difficult.<br>can anyone guide me on how to run a service on a specific display in an automated process?<br><br>right now if i connect to a vnc session (any port) and i run it manually through iterm, it works normally.<br>though setting an cron job that does the above, isnt working (rc opens in shell instead of on each dev's assigned display)<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">CentOS@centos.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos" target="_blank">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________
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