Subject: RE: scheduling jobs
From: "Gen Zhang" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Karen McLaughlin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:24:30 +0100

> 1) can i use windows nt to access the bash job and how ...
> I tried the following and got the following errors
> 
> C:\jobs>e:\cygwin\bin\bash -c e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh
> date: not found
> date: not found
> date: not found
> cp: not found
> date: not found
> cp: not found
> C:\jobs>date
> 
> added #!/bin/bash to top of shell script
> C:\jobs>e:\cygwin\bin\bash -c e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh
> e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: date: command not found
> e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: date: command not found
> e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: date: command not found
> e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: cp: command not found
> e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: date: command not found
> e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: cp: command not found
> C:\jobs>umassonline_rotate_logs.bat
> 
> 2) if not --- i probably need cron?
> to add this to the current setup without messing up anything the boss
> installed -- do i run setup again? or something else ..

Try adding --login to the bash command. Try also -i. The roughly
equivalent command to cron in nt is at. Type in help at at the cmd.

Hope this helps.

Genneth

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