topic cygwin crontab ? in Operating System - HP-UX

cygwin crontab ?

Steven Chen_1 — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:44:36 GMT

Hi,

Dose anyone knows if cygwin comes with crontab scheduling job in windows server? If yes, how to make it, or any package name associated with cypwin? If not, how to schedule jobs on cygwin execution from windows scheduler?

Help is appreciated!

Steven

Re: cygwin crontab ?

Torsten. — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:01:04 GMT

If I start cygwin and type crontab:

bash-3.1$ crontab
crontab: usage error: file name must be specified for replace
usage: crontab [-u user] file
crontab [-u user] { -e | -l | -r }
(default operation is replace, per 1003.2)
-e (edit user's crontab)
-l (list user's crontab)
-r (delete user's crontab)

So it looks like it is available (too lazy to try it out, sorry)

Re: cygwin crontab ?

Jonathan Fife — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:08:32 GMT

It's available if you checked the cron component during the cygwin install process.

Otherwise, you can create .bat files that run from scheduled tasks, and just run bash -c "/your/script.sh" from those.

Re: cygwin crontab ?

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:13:13 GMT

Steven,

Add this one.
http://cygwin.com/packages/cron/

Best regards,
Robert-Jan