X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BDD8B43.5050102@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 16:25:07 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johannes_M=FCller?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: cron visual output looks funny Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi, 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 userinput, but is not displayed correctly, as I can not see a button on the window (although it fires the associated action, when being pressed). I configured the cron service to be able to interact with the desktop and tried to find an answer to my question on the net/FAQ/Mailinglist but could not find more than the hint to somehow configure the environment for cron. I set "DISPLAY=:0" as it is suggested in the ubuntu-wiki to start GUI-apps from cron. I also used a system-owned-shell to install cron with cron-config, but this did not seem to work out: """ The group membership of your cron table file should be ADMINISTRATORS. Here is your cron table file listing: -rw-r----- 1 SYSTEM Administratoren 332 2010-05-02 14:05 /var/cron/tabs/SYSTEM This rule does not apply if the daemon runs with nontsec. You can change the group membership setting with: chgrp 0 /var/cron/tabs/SYSTEM Please change your cron table's group membership. """ So my question is, how do I configure cygwin and cron, so that cron can start and display GUI-applications correctly? Sorry if I understood something wrong and annoy you, but I am new to cygwin and cron and I really tried to solve the problem by myself for quite some time. I appreciate your help, Johannes Müller -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple