Cron jobs visible

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:38:54 +0200)
> On Aug 10 14:15, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > * Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:34:25 +0200)
> > > On Aug 10 12:57, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > > I upgraded to Windows 7 on Sunday and now whenever cron runs a job,
> > > > the new forked cron process is visible in a console window. I
> > > > suspect that this might be related to the new "Console Window Host"
> > > > (conhost.exe) as I also get this window when I run screen inside a
> > > > shell.
> > > 
> > > Cygwin 1.5.25, I presume.  Cygwin 1.5.25 is not supported under W7.  Use
> > > Cygwin 1.7 instead.  It contains workarounds for a few really incredible
> > > bugs introduced in Windows 7 in terms of console windows.  I reported two 
> > > of them in the beta testing phase.  One of them has been only partially
> > > fixed (and introduced a new one in the W7 32 bit), the other one hasn't
> > > been fixed at all in RTM.
> > 
> > Thanks for the insight and background information. I'll probably wait 
> > until 1.7 is out of beta and an "official" migration document is 
> > released.
> 
> What "official" migration document?  There will be a release announcment
> and that's it.

Something like "how to move from 1.5 to 1.7". Or will it be an automatic 
process done via (and by) Setup.exe? Or will we have to do a "fresh 
install" :-/ ?

Thorsten


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