in reply to On win32 a scheduling task program doesn't work

Raw guess: Redirect STDIN of rsync to the NULL device, i.e.:

rsync -av --delete '/from/somewhere' '/to/somewhere' < nul

(DOS style)

- or -

rsync -av --delete '/from/somewhere' '/to/somewhere' < /dev/null

(when cygwin provides /dev/null)

Alexander

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Re^2: On win32 a scheduling task program doesn't work
by saintex (Scribe) on Jun 21, 2010 at 08:24 UTC
    With this syntax: 
    rsync -av --delete '/from/somewhere' '/to/somewhere' < nul

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    But Why?


    It is useful to know, that I do a redirect of both STDOUT and STDERR on a lo file.
    But I don't thing that is related to STDIN: 
            $| = 1; # no output buffer
        

        open LOG, ">", LOG_FILE # LOG_FILE settings are in toConfig.pm
            or warn "Can't create LOG FILE: $!";
        close LOG;
            
        open STDERR, ">>",LOG_FILE
            or warn "Can't redirect STDERR: $!";
        open STDOUT, ">>",LOG_FILE
            or warn "Can't redirect STDOUT: $!";

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    UPDATE
    It seems that all works fine, also without STDIN redirect, if I try to call my Perl program from Windows Scheduled Tasks, with that syntax:

    cmd /c "C:\Documents and Settings\saintex\Desktop\saintex-backup\backup.pl" -m alternative

    This way is also important to send options to perl file (without 'cmd /c' no options are passed to Perl program).

    Thank you all!
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