In order to do this, I looked at the following posts about the issue:. Notice that I redirected the output of the shell script to a log file, so that I should be able to see there whether the program run. Other than that, I simply edited the "trigger" tab to run the task daily, and set the time to a couple of minutes in the fture to see whether it ran successfully. Alas, when I look at the detailed event history for the task, nothing changes when the trigger time passes.
And when I manually "run" the task, the event history seems to add a few different events, but the task is completed within seconds, whereas this task should take over an hour and it does when the shell script is executed directly from the terminal. And when I look for the log file that should have been created, there is nothing. Does anyone have any idea what might be the issue here? How can I get my task to run properly at the trigger time, and how can I make sure it does so?
Please ignore the fact that it says there are 24 events. These are from multiple separate runs of the task. The events shown here are a complete list of the events triggered by a single run. EDIT 2: Regarding my attempts to get cron to work, I have run into the following problem when I try to start the cron service using cygrunsrv. First of all, I tried to start cron by typing. Does anyone hae any idea what this error means? I tried googling it, but couldn't find any answers.
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. I find it useful to provide a good description as well as a decent name because it facilitates performing maintenance on the task. The next pane is the Task Trigger pane. It is pretty basic, and self-explanatory. Because I want to create a daily task, I leave that selected.
After it is created, it is easy to edit the scheduled task to make it run the task more often, such as every hour if that is the need.
One reason I use the Basic Task Wizard is that it is easy to get through the steps needed to create the basic task. I always edit stuff later. The Task Trigger pane is shown here. Now it is time to set the schedule for the task. In this example, the task runs every morning at AM beginning on August 11, In the Action pane that follows, I select that we want the scheduled task to Start a program , and then click Next.
I then click Next. The Start a Program pane is shown here. Here is where the cheating part comes in to play. I used, directly, the command I tested in the Run box for my program. Rather than attempting to break things up, I simply copied the entire line.
The Scheduled Task Wizard is smart enough to know what I wanted to do. It prompts, but it knows. The prompt appears here. The easy way to do this is to select the Open the Properties dialog for this task when I click Finish , as shown here. Make sure that " start in, contains the file ". And it should be generating every single hour. In the "start in" path0 configured in the " Action " of the task. Office Office Exchange Server.
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