cron visual output looks funny

Johannes Müller dersinndeslebenz@gmx.net
Sun May 2 15:55:00 GMT 2010


Johannes Müller wrote:
> 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
> 
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I included the cronbug.txt if this is of any help.

Johannes Müller
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