Hello Monks,
I have this situation:
I have installed cwRsync (a Windows port of Rsync: http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/10650 ) on a Windows machine and I'm trying to use Perl to do a lot of stuff.
Finally I ask Perl to invoke my rsync command.

On a DOS console enviroment all runs as well.

But if I insert my Perl program in Windows Scheduling Tasks function, nothing works anymore.
I have already done a little debugging, and I have tried to isolate my problem.
So If I tried to run my Perl program in my DOS console. It contains this code: 
 system "rsync --version";

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All works fine.
I have:
rsync  version 3.0.7  protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, ACLs, no xattrs, iconv, symtimes

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and y
+ou
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.

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That sounds good
But If I try to insert my Perl program in Windows Scheduled Tasks, I have this error: 
      2 [main] rsync 4008 C:\Programmi\cwRsync\bin\rsync.exe: *** fata
+l error - couldn't initialize fd 0 for /dev/console

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And this is pretty strange:
It seems rsync is not able to have the console from parent process (that is the Perl program)...
I have also tried to set up Environement variables, but without any gains: 

$ENV{'CWRSYNCHOME'}='C:\Programmi\cwRsync';
$ENV{'CYGWIN'}='nontsec';
$ENV{'HOME'}='C:\Documents and Settings\saintex';
$ENV{'CWOLDPATH'}=$ENV{"PATH"};
$ENV{'PATH'}='C:\Programmi\cwRsync\bin;' . $ENV{'PATH'};

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Moreover the same rsync command, in DOS batch style, works fine also if I call it from Scheduled Tasks: 
@ECHO OFF

SETLOCAL
SET CWRSYNCHOME=C:\Programmi\cwRsync

SET CYGWIN=nontsec


SET HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\wolf


SET CWOLDPATH=%PATH%
SET PATH=%CWRSYNCHOME%\BIN;%PATH%


rsync -av --delete '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/saintex/Desktop
+/to save' '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/saintex/Desktop/myTest'

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The rsync command is just a little part of my Perl program, so I can't translate all the stuff in DOS style (and I don't like to do it).
Any ideas?
Suggestions are welcome
Thank you!

In reply to On win32 a scheduling task program doesn't work by saintex

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