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Subject: | Re:cron visual output looks funny
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From: | Stephen Morton <stephen DOT c DOT morton AT gmail DOT com>
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On Sun, 02 May 2010 16:25:07 +0200 Johannes M=FCller Wrote:
>I installed and use cron on windows xp using cygwin. It works fine for non=
-GUI applications, but for instance notepad does not seem to >start at all.=
And a popup-window-script I wrote in python does appear and react to useri=
nput, but is not displayed
> ...
I think the reason you're getting no replies is because people are perplexed
at why anybody would be trying to run GUI apps from cron. You see cron is
_normally_ used to run background jobs that have no direct output or at most
put a little bit of output to a logfile.
For example, these are the kinds of things people might normally
put in a cron:
* Back up data (databases, modified software code, research data,
twiki contents, etc)
* Optimize a database (after hours)
* Roll logfiles
* Send you an email about which friends' birthdays are coming up in
the next month.
But generally, never ever graphical apps. I'm not saying it isn't
possible; it sounds
like you found something on a Ubuntu mailing list about it. But it is highly
unusual.
And people are going to jump to the conclusion --correct or not-- that you =
are
doing something really stupid and they want no part in helping you. So perh=
aps
you can indicate what you're trying to do that you think you want cron for.=
And
if it's good, people will say "oh, I see" and try to help. And if it's
not good, people
will also probably try to help you by steering you to something more
appropriate to your needs.
Stephen
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