Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <010901c2851b$32058930$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Stan Horwitz" , References: Subject: Re: How to schedule scripts Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:32:16 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Stan Horwitz wrote: > Now, I want to schedule this [perl] script to run once a day as > Administrator. With that in mind, I created a request under Windows' > Task scheduler, but when the scheduled time occurred, a Cygwin shell > window opened up, but nothing else happens. The request I scheduled > was "cygwin daily.pl; exit" but the "daily.pl" script never executes; > nor does "exit". As such, I end up with a Window to a Cygwin shell on > my screen. "cygwin" is of course "cygwin.bat". If you look at it, you will see that it doesn't make any attempt to pass args on to the shell. But you don't want a shell anyway. Just invoke perl directly: "perl /full/path/to/daily.pl". Of course you will need C:\cygwin\bin, or the equivalent on your system, in PATH (either the system-wide setting, or the user the script will run as), so that perl can be found, and it in turn can find DLLs that it needs. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/