[IDV #PEC-261362]: Running IDV in the cloud to generate images

> Hi, we have been working in IDV to generate weather products for the
> Central American region. Now we want to automate the generation of this via
> ISL scripts and the bundles. but IDV seems is not working when running on a
> linux cloud server seems something related to graphics, we intend to cron
> this scripts and don't need to view the process  just to generate, as we
> can see the process in the local machine and then just automate in linux.
> 
> Is there a way to run this via crons?
> 
> this is what happens in the linux cloud server
> 
> [image: image.png]
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Norman E. Avila G.
> 
> ClimaYa
> GUA    (+502) 2360-9950
> 
> 
Hi Norman,

Yes, you can do it in the cloud server to use xvnc, xvfb,  or xdummy. See the 
attached example.


Yuan 

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PEC-261362
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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#!/bin/bash

export DISPLAY=:0
cd $HOME
./killname Xorg.azureuser
./killname Xdummy
xargs ./Xdummy -reset >xdummylog 2>&1 &

#echo `grep DISPLAY /home/xdummylog|cut -d ' ' -f4`
#echo $dd
cd $HOME/IDV_5.0u1
export DISPLAY=:0
echo "RUNNING ON "$DISPLAY >>log
echo "STARTED "`date` >> log
./runIDV
echo "DONE "`date` >> log