[CentOS] selenium rc server - run it on a specific display help!

Fri Feb 4 16:51:17 UTC 2011
Cameron Kerr <cameron at humbledown.org>

You need to instruct it what DISPLAY to run on.

DISPLAY=... command-to-run-selenium

You should also need (I think) to do something with X authentication (xauth)

Are you sure that running it from cron is suitable? Seems very unusual for a GUI program.

On 5/02/2011, at 3:08 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> i'm trying to run multiple  selenium rc server on a centos box (different ports)
> with developers connecting to it through VNC (different respective ports) to check their automated test result.
> i can easily do the above manually (when it comes to running RC server).
> though automating the process is proving to be difficult.
> can anyone guide me on how to run a service on a specific display in an automated process?
> 
> right now if i connect to a vnc session (any port) and i run it manually through iterm, it works normally.
> though setting an cron job that does the above, isnt working (rc opens in shell instead of on each dev's assigned display)
> 
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