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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