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5 perl.exe and cmd.exe - ID: 2013958
Last Update: Comment added ( robkehl )

I don't know, is it bug or or not but it looks suspicious to me.

I installed CRONw 2.0 on Windows 2003 R2 and have following crontab.txt:
*/1 * * * * C:\\windows\\System32\\calc.exe

So, cron fires this job every minute but if I look Process Manager I got:
calc.exe
cmd.exe
perl.exe

so for every job cron fired, it creates cmd.exe and perl.exe and job
command. If I close calc.exe, then cmd.exe and perl.exe of that job command
ends respectively.

So, is it normal?


Ilyas Bakirov (aka eRIC) ( just_ilyas ) - 2008-07-09 04:08

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Date: 2008-07-14 22:30
Sender: robkehlProject AdminAccepting Donations


This is completely normal, due to the nature of firing executables from
within CRONw. :-)


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File Added 284065: calc.jpg 2008-07-09 04:08 just_ilyas