3dtrue wrote:

> I am soo in love with this povray thing! Thanks community for a great
> thing! I've been poving on my windows desktop for a couple months. Onward,
> i was hoping to get povray to do a render every hour from my linux server
> of a dynamic pov file. Basically, a 3d landscape of my webserver with
> night and day based off system time and traffic logs showing up as lights
> inside buildings etc. I have root, so i installed povray 3.5 no problem,
> and test rendered via a ssh Putty shell window from my Windows system at
> home. I was simply typing (from my pov folder) povray ./gigtown.pov I was
> getting my output file gigtown.png looking povy and dandy. Everything was
> working great. Next up i wrote a perl script to auto render this pov file
> every hour.
> 

> Then i found the same problem two other folks have reported in this group,
> I cannot render from my crontab entry or from a cgi script. I tried it as
> root and as a reg user, Made a bash script too hoping cron would run that
> and povray would get the input, but bash result sends me Page Segment
> fault.

Did you get any error messages? Anything in the cron log?

Regards,

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions

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