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From: Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: daemon opens blank dos windows for its subprocess
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711121442.GA4040@tishler.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48772631.9070707@nethence.com>

Pierre-Philipp,

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:21:53AM +0200, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> I'm using cygwin to filter my emails with fetchmail and procmail.
> Problem is, when fetchmail launches procmail (mda "/usr/bin/procmail
> -f - -m $HOME/.procmailrc.file"), it quickly opens and closes
> freacking (blank) dos windows !  How to avoid that ?

You can workaround the issue by running fetchmail as a service.  See the
following for the details:

    /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.3.8.README

Jason

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-11  3:49 programming API to determine whether in "Cygwin environment" Tony Last
2008-07-11  5:06 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-11  5:33   ` programming API to determine whether in 'Cygwin environment' Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
2008-07-11  7:51     ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-07-11  9:22       ` daemon opens blank dos windows for its subprocess Pierre-Philipp Braun
2008-07-11 12:17         ` Jason Tishler [this message]
2008-07-11 13:38           ` Pierre-Philipp Braun
2008-07-11 20:14             ` Jason Tishler
2008-07-12 12:40         ` Thorsten Kampe
2008-07-11 12:34       ` programming API to determine whether in 'Cygwin environment' William Sutton
2008-07-11 13:06         ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-12 12:36         ` Thorsten Kampe
2008-07-11 12:59     ` Christopher Faylor
2008-07-11 15:24 ` programming API to determine whether in "Cygwin environment" Tony Last
2008-07-11 15:38   ` Dave Korn
2008-07-11 15:45     ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2008-07-11 15:54       ` Tony Last
2008-07-11 15:36 ` Karr, David
2008-07-11 15:58   ` Dave Korn
2008-07-11 16:00   ` Christopher Faylor

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