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: <007901c2d87e$58903580$775f4e51@webdev> Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" , "Kris Dahl" References: <06d601c2d87c$bdac5f90$021010ac@tequila> Subject: Re: rsync problem... windows cmd vs. cygwin terminal Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:21:07 -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 > I'm using rsync on cygwin to syncronize a bunch of remote machines to a > central machine. > > I'm planning on automating it to run regularly with windows scheduler, so I > have some batch files with the rsync command. > > When I run batch file from like a Windows cmd window it gives me an error > with rsync tries to move the temp file to the perm file: > > rename .Types.dbf.002724 -> Types.dbf : no such file or directory > > Yet when I run this from a cygwin terminal window it works just dandy. > > I guess its a difference of using the cygwin.dll to run rsync/ssh/etc FROM > windows, rather then in the cygwin environment proper. Is there any way to > correct this problem, or do I just need to set up a cron from withing the > cygwin environment? > > Thanks, > -k If it works perfectly from the cygwin terminal then why not use a shell script and execute that via the task scheduler? Once you have the commands in your shell script you can just use C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c /path/to/script.sh instead of C:\blah\path\batch.bat Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn@exposure.org.uk www.exposure.org.uk -- 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/