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Re: Fire Windows programs using cron...
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:46:09 +0100
- Subject: Re: Fire Windows programs using cron...
- References: <4716.1011207572@www40.gmx.net>
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:59:32PM +0100, Evgeny Apanasenko wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've set up cron to fire W2K GUI program ntbackup.exe. Everything works but
> I would like the program to interact with GUI display and keyboard (now I
> can't see the program window when it is working). How can I do this?
You would have to switch on the `Allow service to interact with
desktop' facility to the cron service. That would result in
a console window always visible when cron is runing, though.
Actually, cron isn't designed to start GUI apps.
Corinna
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