I would defer to Robert he has a lot of experience with this. So if you are staying on tK2 then look at the alternative tools. If you can upgrade to W5 it has a lot to offer.
Dan on 6/9/04 11:23, Robert Shubert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All- > > The cron facility in T2K can miss calls and crash (stop altogether), it > is unreliable. This is, however, not the case with Witango 5. Anyone who > is running Witango 5 can reliably use the built-in cron facility. My > servers execute over 20 crons spanning from every minute to once a day, > and they never miss a beat. > > Should anyone find a cron configuration which repeatedly causes an error > on your Witango 5 installation, you should send all information you can > to WT. > > Robert > > -----Original Message----- > From: John McGowan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 9:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Crons > > Witango has a built in Cron facility, but that has never been reliable > for us. We download and installed a third party cron service to run. > > We also downloaded a windows version of the *nix "wget" program to make > > the hitting of the url easy. > > I like this type of solution because It allows me to schedule anything > URL or script. > > Email me off the list if you want more information about the programs > we've used. > > Perhaps you would still be able to use windows scheduler with the wget > facility. The machines I'm talking about were NT, so there wasn't a > good scheduling facility. > > /John > > Witango wrote: > >> I want to be able to execute certain taf files every night. I am on a > win 2K >> server. Anyone have any experience or knowledge on how this can be >> accomplished? I tried using the windows scheduler. Not very practical. >> >> Any help is appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> Vicky >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ > _ >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >> >> >> > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799 Evergreen Circle Telford PA 18969 Land: 215-799-0192 Cell: 610-256-2843 Fax 413-410-9682 FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dss-db.com "When you are born, you cry and those who love you rejoice. And if you live your life as you should, when you die, you rejoice and those who love you cry." ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
