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Re: interactive process is started on another user's 'desktop'


No one responded to my message, below (on 10/1/2007). I've got a production system not doing what it is supposed to do until I get this worked out... and I don't have a clue where to start looking. Did I provide enough information? Anyone have any ideas how I can get cron to spawn the interactive application on the current desktop (rather than one that is not currently being used?)

Thanks =)




jae@platinumpsi.com wrote:
I installed cygserver and cron with their included *-config commands.  (
Originally as the user WinAdmin. )  I'm running a call processing
application on user "Call Processing".  I created a cron entry with
crontab -e, from the cygwin prompt as the user "TC".  (logged into Windows
as "TC")  The cron entry fires an application meant to interact with
"TC"'s desktop.  ( I did cygrunsrv -E cron; added the tick to interact
with the desktop under the cron service's properties; applied changes; and
then cygrunsrv -S cron ) ... the cron entry creates a text file every time
it fires.

So... when the text file is created, the application does not appear to
run.  However, when switching users, I find it interacting with "Call
Processing"'s desktop.  This is consistent.  Three users logged in, "TC's"
cron event fires (creating the text file under TC's path), and the
application is running on "Call Processing"'s desktop.

/var/log/cron.log offers no clues.  /usr/bin/cronevents.exe doesn't either.
/var/log/cygserver.log is empty.

Please help. :)


cygcheck:


Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Mon Oct 01 13:41:22 2007

Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2

Path:	C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
	C:\cygwin\bin
	C:\cygwin\bin
	C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
	c:\WINDOWS\system32
	c:\WINDOWS
	c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
	c:\Python22
	c:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
UID: 1009(Triton Connect) GID: 513(None)
0(root)                   513(None)                 544(Administrators)
545(Users)

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 1009(Triton Connect) GID: 513(None)
0(root)                   513(None)                 544(Administrators)
545(Users)

SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS

USER = 'Triton Connect'
PWD = '/home/Triton Connect'
HOME = '/home/Triton Connect'
MAKE_MODE = 'unix'

HOMEPATH = '\Documents and Settings\Triton Connect'
MANPATH = '/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man::/usr/ssl/man'
APPDATA = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Triton Connect\Application Data'
HOSTNAME = 'Stat'
TERM = 'cygwin'
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel'
WINDIR = 'C:\WINDOWS'
OLDPWD = '/usr/bin'
USERDOMAIN = 'STAT'
OS = 'Windows_NT'
ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'
!:: = '::\'
TEMP = '/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/TRITON~1/LOCALS~1/Temp'
COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files'
USERNAME = 'Triton Connect'
PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '15'
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK = 'NO'
SYSTEMDRIVE = 'C:'
EDITOR = 'nano'
USERPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Triton Connect'
PS1 = '\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '
LOGONSERVER = '\\STAT'
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = 'x86'
!C: = 'C:\cygwin\bin'
SHLVL = '1'
PATHEXT = '.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH'
HOMEDRIVE = 'C:'
PROMPT = '$P$G'
COMSPEC = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe'
TMP = '/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/TRITON~1/LOCALS~1/Temp'
SYSTEMROOT = 'C:\WINDOWS'
PRINTER = 'Auto Samsung ML-1710 Series on ECHO'
CVS_RSH = '/bin/ssh'
PROCESSOR_REVISION = '0409'
INFOPATH = '/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info:'
PROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files'
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = '1'
SESSIONNAME = 'Console'
COMPUTERNAME = 'STAT'
SONICCENTRAL = 'c:\Program Files\Common Files\Sonic Shared\Sonic Central\'
_ = '/usr/bin/cygcheck'
POSIXLY_CORRECT = '1'

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
  (default) = '/cygdrive'
  cygdrive flags = 0x00000022
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/
  (default) = 'C:\cygwin'
  flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin
  (default) = 'C:\cygwin/bin'
  flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib
  (default) = 'C:\cygwin/lib'
  flags = 0x0000000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options

c:  hd  NTFS     28929Mb  37% CP CS UN PA FC     HP_PAVILION
d:  hd  FAT32     9215Mb  57% CP    UN           HP_RECOVERY
e:  cd             N/A    N/A

C:\cygwin      /          system  binmode
C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode
C:\cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  binmode
.              /cygdrive  system  binmode,cygdrive

Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
Not Found: cpp (good!)
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\crontab.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Not Found: gcc
Not Found: gdb
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe
Not Found: ld
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Not Found: make
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Not Found: patch
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
Not Found: ssh
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\test.exe
Not Found: vi
Not Found: vim

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                  "cygglib-1-2-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/3/15 21:16
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                  "cyggmodule-1-2-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/3/15 21:18
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                  "cyggthread-1-2-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/3/15 21:18
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                  "cygicons-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2007/8/24 2:24
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                  "cygiconv-2.dll" v0.0 ts=2006/10/22 18:44
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                  "cygintl-8.dll" v0.0 ts=2006/10/22 19:12
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                  "cygioperm-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/2/17 13:58
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                  "cygmenu-8.dll" v0.0 ts=2006/11/15 1:05
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                  "cygmenu7.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/9 4:25
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                  "cygpcre-0.dll" v0.0 ts=2007/6/26 22:49
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                  "cygreadline6.dll" v0.0 ts=2007/8/23 17:01
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                  "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2007/1/31 3:58
    Cygwin DLL version info:
        DLL version: 1.5.24
        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 156
        Shared data: 4
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix:
        Build date: Wed Jan 31 10:57:51 CET 2007
        CVS tag: cr-0x5f1
        Shared id: cygwin1S4


Service : cron Display name : Cron daemon Current State : Running Controls Accepted : Stop Command : /usr/sbin/cron -n stdin path : /dev/null stdout path : /var/log/cron.log stderr path : /var/log/cron.log Environment : CYGWIN="ntsec" Process Type : Own Process, Interactive Startup : Automatic Account : LocalSystem

Service             : cygserver
Display name        : CYGWIN cygserver
Current State       : Running
Controls Accepted   : Stop
Command             : /usr/sbin/cygserver
stdin path          : /dev/null
stdout path         : /var/log/cygserver.log
stderr path         : /var/log/cygserver.log
Process Type        : Own Process
Startup             : Automatic
Account             : LocalSystem


Cygwin Package Information Last downloaded files to: C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator Last downloaded files from: http://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin

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