Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3F8DF567.3040501@math.mun.ca> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:03:27 -0230 From: "Paul Y. Peng" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: cron and hibernate Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Paul Y. Peng wrote: > > > Thank you for this definitive but negative answer. It saves me time to try in vain. Are there any alternative ways to do the same thing as cron? I only heard about WinCron. Thanks. > > How about Windows own TaskScheduler? I should have mentioned it in the last email. I have been using Windows own TaskScheduler so far. What I don't like it is that it cannot run jobs silently at background, particularly when a job is a batch file or a bash script. Whenever such a job is started, an annoying DOS window pops up and it also occupies my taskbar. Paul. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/