John,

I use the Windows Task Scheduler for these kinds of things, purely because
the GUI is easier to work with when settings the timing.

Using Task Scheduler, you can have it fire off a CMD file to perform the
same task.  In order to access a TAF file, I use the HTTPCMD utility from
the NT Resource Kit, which is basically a text-mode HTTP Client (i.e.
Browser).  I suspect you could also use a Win32 version of Lynx (try
http://lynx.browser.org/).

Just my 2 pence...

Jon



-----Original Message-----
From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 30 April 2002 2:24
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: Witango-Talk: Cron Setup


Hello all,

I'm on Win2k, IIS and can't get crontabfile to work.  Here's what I have
done.

1.  I set the crontabfile variable to
C:\PVSW\Tango2000\Configuration\crontab.txt and restarted the server.
*   The docs say to specify the full path, but I wasn't sure if the file
name should be included.

2.  Below I'll paste the contents of crontab.txt.  Tabs are used as
delimiters.

3.

#
# Cron tab file
#
# Run this file every 15 minutes
0,14,29,44,59 8-17 * * * http:\\www.pfmonline.net\cron_15_min.taf
#
#
# Run this file every hour
1 * * * * http:\\www.pfmonline.net\cron_hourly.taf
#
#
# Run this file every week at 0001 Sunday morning
0 0 * * 0 http:\\www.pfmonline.net\cron_weekly.taf
#
#
# Run this file at the begining of each month
0 0 0 * * http:\\www.pfmonline.net\cron_monthly.taf
#
#
# That's all!


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