scheduling jobs

[Karen McLaughlin]

I briefly went through the archives and apologize if this is an
extremely elementary question but i seem to have a brain cramp here ....

My boss installed cygwin on a win 2000 machine

I am having trouble finding the window that cygwin and nt talk to each
other through ...

what i basically have done is written a simple bash script --- i am now
trying to schedule it

from the setup log it appears boss has not installed cron ...
he thinks i should be able to schedule a batch job as follows that calls
the bash shell script --- it doesnt seem to work (I am fairly unix savvy
i am not terribly nt savvy but i have been in the IT field a number of
year) -- i had also had that thought last night because i thought of
COURSE the boss knows what he is talking about and if he says i can use
windows at command to schedule something in cygwin it must be the way
....

so my question(s) are:

1) can i use windows nt to access the bash job and how ...
I tried the following and got the following errors

C:\jobs>e:\cygwin\bin\bash -c e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh
date: not found
date: not found
date: not found
cp: not found
date: not found
cp: not found
C:\jobs>date

added #!/bin/bash to top of shell script
C:\jobs>e:\cygwin\bin\bash -c e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh
e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: date: command not found
e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: date: command not found
e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: date: command not found
e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: cp: command not found
e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: date: command not found
e:/cygwin/jobs/umassonline_log_rotate.sh: cp: command not found
C:\jobs>umassonline_rotate_logs.bat



2) if not --- i probably need cron?
to add this to the current setup without messing up anything the boss
installed -- do i run setup again? or something else ..

3) how do i keep cron up in the windows environment? ie --- do i need to
run inetd as a service or cron as a service??? can you point me toward
how to do this?

I have perused various parts of the documentations and mailing list
archives.
I can't seem to find an answer and since i wasted a lot of time trying
to get cronolog (log rotation program) to work i am way behind on
getting this shell script running (it is a log rotation script) ...
Thanks in advance for any help on this ...

Karen
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