Contact your ISP and ask them if they already have and/or are willing to
set-up something for you. Here's an instance. One host I have used before
is TierraNet. They use cron to run a CGI script, named crontask.cgi, at
3AM. You can put anything you want to in that script (Perl, C/C++, etc.) to
work with MySQL. So, maybe you could see if your ISP will do something like
that.
If that's not the case, and if your program is not intended to be publicly
distributed, you could just run the CGI script manually. Or, (just another
option) if they support SSI you could create a SHTML file with some system
commands to do it. And lastly, PHP works wonders. If they don't have PHP
installed then you're using a bum ISP, IMHO. :o)
Unfortunately from the web, the file permissions have to set to publicly
read and execute. So, set-up some sort of password protection (.htacess
maybe) or anyone will be able to run the CGI script.
Jeremy
> Dear Jeremy, Gregor
>
> Thanks and sorry for not being more specific.
>
>
> First of all we use an ISP who runs a Unix server. They won't give us ssh
>
> without a dedicate server - too expensive for us.
> Then we use Windows
> clients (95, 98) not on a network.
>
> We transfer the data down a phone line
> from the server -
> client and from> client -
> server.
>
> Thanks for
> suggesting cron - can you tell me what it is?
>
> Regards
>
> Elizabeth
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