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Re: no cron in cygwin?
- To: Greg Matheson <lang at ms dot chinmin dot edu dot tw>
- Subject: Re: no cron in cygwin?
- From: dmkarr at earthlink dot net (David M. Karr)
- Date: 13 Apr 2001 15:58:20 -0700
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <20010413154529.A57199@ms.chinmin.edu.tw>
>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Matheson <lang@ms.chinmin.edu.tw> writes:
Greg> I wanted to upload files to an NT server on which I have installed
Greg> cywin, by running an expect script on it as a cron job, but I see
Greg> there is no cron in cygwin.
Greg> What is my next step?
Greg> 1. Look into installing cron myself? This is the option that I would
Greg> give me the result I would like most, but there must be a reason that
Greg> the cygwin crew hasn't incorporated a cron yet. For example, it must
Greg> be a daemon or something.
Greg> 2. Look around for an NT equivalent? This is the option I want to
Greg> explore least. I don't want to learn more about NT than I have to.
If you're unable to find a cygwin-native solution for this (I've tried), an
easy-to-use (and free) Windows scheduler is available from
<http://www.splinterware.com/>. You just set the "Program" as the path to the
"bash.exe" executable, and the "Params" starts with "--login <yourbashtask>".
It gives you pretty good flexibility in scheduling jobs.
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