Right -- on NT4 you use AT. On Windows 2000 Server, you get the much better Task Scheduler. If you use AT on 2000, it actually creates Task Scheduler items... ;)
-----Original Message----- From: Troy Sosamon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 April 2002 4:26 To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Cron Setup I use a batch file using the AT command to do things on a regular schedule. Troy Sosamon >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >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! > > >________________________________________________________________________ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body >________________________________________________________________________ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body Troy Sosamon Denver Co [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
