Re: schedule a monthly ftp event
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:15:35 -0700, willitfw wrote: > Greetings, > I am looking for some guidance on a script. > > My goals are: > 1) have this script run automatically through a time set schedule. > 2) verify if a file is updated on an ftp site (usually on the 15th of > the month). > 3) If the updated file exists, ftp it to local drive. > 4) e-mail other users when the file has been updated on the local > drive. Operating system? comp.lang.python can help you with the other stuff, but the scheduling is OS-dependent. (Which isn't to say you won't get help, but it is, technically, off topic.) On UNIX, use some "cron" varient, Windows has some sort of Scheduler built in but I've never done anything with it but turn it off, and I have no clue about Mac, though perhaps it has cron too in OSX. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: schedule a monthly ftp event
Jeremy Bowers wrote: ... On UNIX, use some "cron" varient, Windows has some sort of Scheduler built in but I've never done anything with it but turn it off Modern Windowsen also have the "AT" command line program which is sometimes a much more appropriate way to get at that capability than the "Scheduler" GUI approach. Haven't had occasion to use either yet, myself... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: schedule a monthly ftp event
Peter Hansen wrote: Jeremy Bowers wrote: ... On UNIX, use some "cron" varient, Windows has some sort of Scheduler built in but I've never done anything with it but turn it off Modern Windowsen also have the "AT" command line program which is sometimes a much more appropriate way to get at that capability than the "Scheduler" GUI approach. Haven't had occasion to use either yet, myself... Personally I use the scheduler GUI and the schtasks.exe command-line program which is an interface to the same capability. At.exe gives you an interface to an older API. But there is a Python interface to the older API. Here's an example: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/python/os/tasks/ostkpy01.mspx -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
