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Subject: RE: How to schedule scripts
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:36:49 -0000
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I'd recommend using the command of bash --login -c <your script>. This
way, all the paths needed by perl, mailer, etc. are set up by the
.profile as it would be. You're not opening this thing load of times per
minute, so the performance shouldn't matter so much.

Just my two pence.

Genneth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb AT ukf DOT net]
> Sent: 05 November 2002 22:32
> To: Stan Horwitz; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: How to schedule scripts
> 
> Stan Horwitz <stan AT temple DOT edu> 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.
> 
> 
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