Re: Unable to run excel via cron

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 06/23/2015 09:39 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote:
> I changed the cron setup to use cygserver as Corinna suggested.  I used
> cron-config and cygserver-config to setup the cron and cygserver services
> and passwd -R to establish my password.  Normal cron jobs run under this
> setup but Excel still hangs as it did before.  I also tried this on the
> Win7 PC that I thought worked at one time but it behaved the same with
> Excel hanging.
>
> So it looks like Corinna's first case is the situation - there is no
> solution.  There apparently is something unique about Excel that will not
> run in this Win7 cron environment.

It's actually not unique to Excel and it's not peculiar to Cygwin's cron.
Any program that requires desktop interaction to run would suffer this same
limitation on Vista and beyond if started from a service.  In the Cygwin
environment, cron is run as a service and used to start programs, so it's
the obvious 'culprit' reported here but it's just one of many possible
vectors that exhibit the unwanted behavior on Windows.  Just FYI.

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Larry

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A: Yes.
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>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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