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Re: Fire Windows programs using cron...
- From: Evgeny Apanasenko <eugene_news at gmx dot net>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:34:56 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Fire Windows programs using cron...
- References: <20020116204609.X2015@cygbert.vinschen.de>
> 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
Thanks for the answer, it works.
By the way is it possible to hide DOS-window appering when cron service is
started?
Regards,
Eugene
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