Alternative to Cron Jobs with cygrunserv

M Maki mmaki@adelphia.net
Mon Aug 29 20:08:00 GMT 2005


I was having a terrible time trying to get cron jobs running with
cygrunsrv on a Windows 2003 Server so I thought I would try the Windows
Scheduler Service.

First I created the bash shell script in cygwin I wanted to run (an
rsync backup) and made sure it worked on it's own.

I then created a Windows batch file that pipes the command I
want to run to the cygwin.bat file that starts cygwin.

For example:

@echo on
echo ./rsyncbkp.sh | C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
echo exit | C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat

Save the above as a .bat file and use the Windows Scheduler to run it.

Hope this helps with those who have had trouble with cygrunsrv.

Mike



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