ok i'll specify the display though not experienced with xauth i'll search for it. as for cron vs gui well any advice? i really need this service to be up and running 24/7 with no downtime so i'm thinking of the following cronjob: if netstat -ntulp | grep -v 4444 DISPLAY="localhost:1"; java - jar selenium-server.jar > /tmp/rc.log 2>&1; else echo "nothing to do `date`" >> /tmp/rc.log echo echo fi # Can you advise me with a better idea? thanks, --Roland From: cameron at humbledown.org Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 05:51:17 +1300 To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] selenium rc server - run it on a specific display help! 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) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110207/03cc704e/attachment-0005.html>