cron visual output looks funny

[Johannes Müller]

On 02.05.2010 17:52, Johannes Müller wrote:
> 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
>

Hi again,

Sorry for the flooding, I thought Attachments would be viewed as Links 
to the file rather than plain text.
I could still not figure out the problem.
I tried to work around the problem by starting the GUI-program with 
nohub, but nothing changes.
I hope you can give me a hint, since I am pretty clueless at the moment.


Johannes



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