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 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020116154521.01691910@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:46:49 -0500 To: Evgeny Apanasenko , Corinna Vinschen From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Fire Windows programs using cron... In-Reply-To: <10298.1011213296@www27.gmx.net> References: <20020116204609 DOT X2015 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:34 PM 1/16/2002, Evgeny Apanasenko wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:59:32PM +0100, Evgeny Apanasenko wrote: > > 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 > >Thanks for the answer, it works. > >By the way is it possible to hide DOS-window appering when cron service is >started? I think Corinna's response implied the answer to this question. To state it more emphatically for you though, the answer is no. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/