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Subject: RE: Cron problem with cron popup windows
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:09:21 -0000
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On 23 January 2008 13:00, cygwin.20.maillinglist wrote:

> Hi folk,
> 
> I have the problem that I get cron popup windows. I change the cron
> service, so that he can interact with the desktop. This was necessary to
> start excel from cron. First everything was ok. But after I rebooted the
> PC now cron startet to open a window always when a cron job started. How
> can I get rid of this behaviour.

  Redirect stdout and stderr to /dev/null in your commandline in the crontab
(i.e. append ">/dev/null 2>/dev/null")?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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