problem running wine as cron job

[Marcel A.J. van Velzen]

Hi,

I have a problem running a shell script, including a wine statement, as cron
job. The shell script from the terminal console works fine, but as a cron
job the error message 'Application tried to create a window' is given. The
Window program unfortunately pops up several screens, which I cannot turn
off.

I am using wine 0.9.44 (also version 0.9.48-13.1 didn't solve it), Suse
Linux 10.3. I tried two approaches; xhost (this is still not working) and
vncserver (this resulted in another error caused by the Windows program).

I hope someone can help me.

Thanks in advance,

Marcel

crontab(-e):
26 * * * * xhost +;export DISPLAY=:0; export
IRETRIEVER_HOME=/usr/local/share/iretriever-3.1.15; /usr/local/share/iretriever-3.1.15/bin/eurobench.sh
> /usr/local/share/iretriever-3.1.15/log/eurobench.log 2>&1; xhost -

eurobench.sh:
#!/bin/bash
#
#

if [ "$IRETRIEVER_HOME" = "" ]; then
        echo ERROR: Set IRETRIEVER_HOME before running this script
        exit 1
fi

wine $IRETRIEVER_HOME/fqrt.exe $IRETRIEVER_HOME/bin/fqrt.tsk

eurobench.log:
No protocol specified
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
err:imagelist:ImageList_ReplaceIcon no color!
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.

[J.O. Aho]

Marcel A.J. van Velzen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem running a shell script, including a wine statement, as cron
> job. The shell script from the terminal console works fine, but as a cron
> job the error message 'Application tried to create a window' is given. The
> Window program unfortunately pops up several screens, which I cannot turn
> off.

If you want to use wine in cron, then you better use a microsoft program that
don't open windows. The cron user do not have a running X11 environment.

> 26 * * * * xhost +;export DISPLAY=:0; export
> IRETRIEVER_HOME=/usr/local/share/iretriever-3.1.15; /usr/local/share/iretriever-3.1.15/bin/eurobench.sh
>> /usr/local/share/iretriever-3.1.15/log/eurobench.log 2>&1; xhost -

xhost has to be run by the user who owns the X11 session, run by anyone else,
the rule won't affect anything.

--

//Aho