Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-18 Thread Paul Y. Peng
Many thanks to all of you who replied my email. My questions have been solved. I found cron.README. But I also learned that cron won't work properly with hiberate (thanks to Corinna Vinschen). I tried Igor Pechtchanski's suggestion of using run.exe and it works perfectly for me. Stephen Powell sugg

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have been using Windows own TaskScheduler so far. What I don't > > like it is that it cannot run jobs silently at background, > > particularly when a job is a batch file or a bash script. Whenever >

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:48:13PM -0230, Paul Y. Peng wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0230, Paul Y. Peng wrote: > >>I have two problems with cron: > >> > >>1. Where can I get cron.README? I found several places where this file is > >> referred to. But

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been using Windows own TaskScheduler so far. What I don't > like it is that it cannot run jobs silently at background, > particularly when a job is a batch file or a bash script. Whenever > such a job is started, an annoying DOS window pops up

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Y. Peng
Paul Y. Peng wrote: Thank you for this definitive but negative answer. It saves me time to try in vain. Are there any alternative ways to do the same thing as cron? I only heard about WinCron. Thanks. How about Windows own TaskScheduler? I should have mentioned it in the last email. I have been

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Paul Y. Peng wrote: Thank you for this definitive but negative answer. It saves me time to try in vain. Are there any alternative ways to do the same thing as cron? I only heard about WinCron. Thanks. How about Windows own TaskScheduler? -- I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tin

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Y. Peng
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0230, Paul Y. Peng wrote: I have two problems with cron: 1. Where can I get cron.README? I found several places where this file is referred to. But I can't find it in my installation of cygwin. Running setup.exe shows that I have

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0230, Paul Y. Peng wrote: > I have two problems with cron: > > 1. Where can I get cron.README? I found several places where this file is >referred to. But I can't find it in my installation of cygwin. Running >setup.exe shows that I have all files in Adm

cron and hibernate

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Y. Peng
I have two problems with cron: 1. Where can I get cron.README? I found several places where this file is referred to. But I can't find it in my installation of cygwin. Running setup.exe shows that I have all files in Admin and Doc installed on my PC. I thought this file may be important f