On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Kristofer <kristo...@cybernetik.net> wrote:
> > Is it possible to run on a schedule (every 12 or 24 hours for example), in > the case that users never log out, or I want to make sure updates get > pulled by clients in a some-what timely fashion? > Kris, I've had great luck using both versions of CRON found here: http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/This is how I handle running wpkg periodically:cron.htm <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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