I am trying to set a cron job in Solaris to upload my files with BucketCommander.
I am using the command:

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BucketCommander.sh -action:upload

When the code runs i receive a large java exception, with which contains in the middle of the error somewhere:
"No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this program performed an operation which requires it."

Is there any workaround to get this to work with cron?
It seems to be trying to use some GUI, which doesn't make sense seeing that it isn't BucketExplorer. I just want to be able to run this upload process automatically.

Can you try this solution and let us know if it worked:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6624 ... 429#662429

If not, we can do some more research.

Saurabh

Thanks for your reply.

To do the upload I must sign in using "ssh -X 'hostname'" and that's the way I have been doing my uploads. Exporting the display should have the same result, although i haven't been able to do so. Plus if it is run as a cron job, there shouldn't be a problem of an exported display. I looked through cron's logs, and the same Java exception is being thrown when cron runs the upload.