RE: cron for windows ???

2005-08-24 Thread Chris
> We want it to run once per day at a specified time. It runs on a Windows Server 2003 box. Windows Scheduler is very flaky on this box -- sometimes it runs the script, sometimes not. When it does run the script, it runs as expected. I've had this problem on every windows box. Have task schedul

RE: cron for windows ???

2005-08-24 Thread Dirk Bremer
sday, August 24, 2005 10:51 To: perl-win32-users mailing list Subject: cron for windows ??? We have a script that runs as expected from CLI. Basically, it parses logfiles, and prepends to another logfile one line of summary. Very basic, very simple stuff. We want it to run once per day at a specifi

Re: cron for windows ???

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Wagner
The only thing I can think of is that the script is running from scheduler with some funky/wrong username that is not allowed to see the output file with -f. I would check that. For cron usage I've used wincron to run expect scripts with no problems. U can get it from Tucows. At 10:50 AM 8/24/0

Re: cron for windows ???

2005-08-24 Thread Michael D Schleif
* On 2005:08:24:10:50:34-0500 I, Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, scribed: > Here is the first point of breakage in the code: > > -f $out_file > or die "\n\tERROR: *NOT* a file: \'$out_file\'\n\n"; > > I have simplified this, with same failure: > > -f $out_file and die;

cron for windows ???

2005-08-24 Thread Michael D Schleif
We have a script that runs as expected from CLI. Basically, it parses logfiles, and prepends to another logfile one line of summary. Very basic, very simple stuff. We want it to run once per day at a specified time. It runs on a Windows Server 2003 box. Windows Scheduler is very flaky on this