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I can't get cron to work on cygwin...

by cecil36 (Pilgrim)
on Jun 12, 2002 at 14:12 UTC ( [id://173832]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

cecil36 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

...so I'm thinking about writing a script in perl that will call another perl script every hour. What tools or modules would I need to get?

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Re: I can't get cron to work on cygwin...
by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 12, 2002 at 14:25 UTC
    The "Scheduled Tasks" feature of Windows (at least Win2K) works just fine for this. I've been using it for months with no trouble.
      I second that. I use cygwin all the time but for something like this, I would use Scheduled Tasks (you can find it in the Control Panel on Win2K) or the scheduler service on NT. I currently use Scheduled Tasks to run a Perl script daily and it works great.
Re: I can't get cron to work on cygwin...
by vladb (Vicar) on Jun 12, 2002 at 14:16 UTC
    If you simply need to invoke a script every once in a while (say, 1 hour), you can pretty much get by without the aid of special modules. Simply, have a main loop in your script, inside of which you'll spawn off a process and sleep for 1 hour and then repeat this cycle all over again.
    my $script = 'foobar.pl'; my $sleep_time = 60*60; # sleep for 1 hour. while (1) { system("foobar.pl"); sleep($sleep_time); }


    UPDATE: However, for complex scheduling, I suggest you take a look at the Schedule-Cron module. So, your script might look as following:
    use Schedule::Cron; sub run_scripts { system("foobar.pl"); } # Create new object with default dispatcher my $cron = new Schedule::Cron(); # Add dynamically crontab entry # invoke run_scripts() every 0 minute past # each hour. $cron->add_entry("0 * * * Mon-Fri", \&run_scripts); # Run scheduler $cron->run(detach=>1);


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Re: I can't get cron to work on cygwin...
by Joost (Canon) on Jun 12, 2002 at 14:20 UTC
    I remember hearing something about an at command on windows, so maybe you can look at that.

    Otherwise:

    while (1) { system("some command") and die "Error running command: $?"; sleep 60*60; }
    Should at least try to do the job.
    -- Joost downtime n. The period during which a system is error-free and immune from user input.

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