[Xastir] Xastir with VMware

[Tim Billingsley]

I dont think cron will start a job running in X.

I must need more coffee.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Amateur Radio WB8NUT <duffy at wb8nut.com>wrote:

> To work around the problem, I created a crontab job to kill xastir and then
> restart it.
>
> The Crontab is laid out like this:
>
> 01 03 * * * pkill -9 -f xastir
> 02 03 * * * /usr/bin/xastir
>
> The cronjob kills xastir just fine, but it never restarts it. I'm far from
> a Linux guru, I keep learning, I have searched the Internet for information
> on crontab and it seems I am doing it correctly, but obviously not.
>