Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:46:09 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Fire Windows programs using cron... Message-ID: <20020116204609.X2015@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4716 DOT 1011207572 AT www40 DOT gmx DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4716.1011207572@www40.gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:59:32PM +0100, Evgeny Apanasenko wrote: > Dear All, > > I've set up cron to fire W2K GUI program ntbackup.exe. Everything works but > I would like the program to interact with GUI display and keyboard (now I > can't see the program window when it is working). How can I do this? You would have to switch on the `Allow service to interact with desktop' facility to the cron service. That would result in a console window always visible when cron is runing, though. Actually, cron isn't designed to start GUI apps. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/