-Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Rohan
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:12 PM
Subject: RE: Monthly Scheduled Task
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 09:07, Matt Robertson wrote:
> I've heard of this happening more than once, but haven't seen it
> personally.
>
> Not too long ago I started needing a lot of scheduled tasks, and was
> having occasional trouble with them. They sometimes didn't want to
> start etc. Switched to running them thru the Windows scheduler and have
> been real pleased. Call Internet Explorer from the command line and
> have it execute a url
>
> C:\progra~1\intern~1\iexplore.exe http://URLorIPhere/foo.cfm
>
> Call a batch file instead with this call in it and you can do all sorts
> of extra stuff.
>
> Of course this is worthless if you aren't on Windows or can't get to the
> server desktop, or the url is in a protected area.
Not worthless you can do the same thing with a shell script, Cron, wget
or lynx on Unix and its variants (which is almost every operating system
in the world except windows hehehe)
--
Vale,
Rob
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