I'm not sure if that's a very good solution. It spawns an unnecessary bourne shell process on each new cron job.
Don't worry if you don't want to make the change. I will maintain my own separate branch and perhaps post the patch with some instructions somewhere online where other people may find it useful. Best regards Blair On 6/5/08, Pierre A. Humblet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Blair Sutton" <> > To: <cygwin> > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:48 PM > Subject: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and > CMD.exe > > > | Hi > | > | This is a very simple patch for Cron to allow one to use a shell like > | powershell or cmd. I've done some testing and it appears to work well. > | > | I simply introduce a new environment variable called SHELLSWICTH that > | defaults to "-c" if not used. Otherwise, one can set it to "/c" or > | "-Command" for Windows shells. > | > > ************ > Hi Blair, > > I maintain cron for cygwin, thanks for your contribution. > There are other simple ways to achieve your goals, > without changing cron. > > For example SHELL could be /some/path/sh2powershell > and sh2powershell be a sh script such as > #! /bin/sh > shift > exec powershell -Command "$*" > > Wouldn't that work as well for you? > > Pierre > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com +44 7943 865 125 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
