script won't run in tasks.cfg but it will on the command line

The documentation for selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py says:

    "Controls a browser by sending commands to a remote server."

When you run it from the command line using xymoncmd, it will have access
to your display and any browser that you have running.  When xymon runs the
same script as a task, it doesn't own the display, so it gets "connection
refused".

Probably.

Ralph Mitchell


On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:53 AM, usa ims via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote:

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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:46:08 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: script won't run in tasks.cfg but it will on the command line
Hi,

I have this Python Selenium script that works if I go into the
'/usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/' and fire off 'xymoncmd' and execute the script
-- it reports to the Xymon Display and life is peachy.

When I put the script in tasks.cfg,  it runs at the desired internal of
every two minutes but it errors out. The script uses a combination of a
driver '/usr/local/bin/geckodriver' which I even gave 777 permissions on it
and changed ownership to 'xymon:xymon'. The script also uses an executable
script in '/usr/bin/firefox' which I gave '777' permissions on it. Any help
will be greatly appreciated.

Here is the error message:

Fri Jan 27 11:37:39 2017
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/xymon/server/ext/wslcb_licensee.py", line 31, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Firefox()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/
webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 150, in __init__
    keep_alive=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/
webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 92, in __init__
    self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/
webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 179, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/
webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/
webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: connection refused