It's not a question of nobody being able to execute StarOffice. The cannot open display error means that when you run the StarOffice macro, it tries to open up a window in XFree. The X session you see on your desktop is owned by your user. However, nobody does not (and should never) have an X session running, nor the permission to start one. What's the point in an X GUI from a CGI script? If you absolutely must have the functionality you describe from a CGI script, you can set $ENV{DISPLAY} in your script appropriately (probably to ":0"), and then play around with the xhosts command from your X session, although this may not even work, I have not messed around extensively with xhost. If it does end up working, you will probably get a window to pop up on your desktop every time someone hits your CGI script. Is this really what you want?

blokhead

In reply to Re: Nobody runs programs? by blokhead
in thread Nobody runs programs? by heezy

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