2010/5/10 Grzegorz Marszałek <gr...@post.pl> > Hello! > > I need to schedule wpkgclient start - to run wpkg.js at diffirent times. I > need this for running wpkg on servers (rare reboots) and laptops (also rare > reboots - usually hibernate, and reboots not always in company networks). > ...
So - does anybody nows some wise commandline tool, where I can say: run this > script at 10:00 from monday to friday - and it will JUST WORK on any windows > system? > Grzegorz, I've had great luck using both versions of CRON found here: http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm I prefer these native versions to PyCron since they don't require a Python installation. For running WPKG, I use the crons.exe version which installs itself as a service. After copying crons.exe and a crontab file to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32, I just run these two commands: c:\windows\system32\crons.exe /install c:\windows\system32\sc.exe start CRON And here is an example of the crontab that I use (look out for wrapped lines below): ----------------------------------------------------- # Basic crontab format: # # +---------------- minute (0 - 59) # | +------------- hour (0 - 23) # | | +---------- day of month (1 - 31) # | | | +------- month (1 - 12) # | | | | +---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0) # | | | | | # * * * * * command to be executed # refresh the crontab file every 10 minutes 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * c:\windows\system32\xcopy.exe /y "\\ fully.qualified.domain.name\NETLOGON\APPS\cron\crontab" "c:\windows\system32" # run wpkg.bat at 10pm, midnight, and 2am each day 0 22,0,2 * * * c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c \\fully.qualified.domain.name\ NETLOGON\APPS\wpkg\wpkg.bat ----------------------------------------------------- That website also has a cron.exe version which can be run as the logged-in user, but for running WPKG, I prefer to have the CRON service run as the system user and just grant "Domain Computers" read/execute access to %SOFTWARE%. Cheers, Troy
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