Re: OT: Cron for windows

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Butash
I tend to agree, if you're *only* installing cygwin for cron, just use the AT scheduler in windows. On windows boxen I owned in the enterprise, I would install cygwin and ssh services on them pretty much default, using bash, cron, and other components extensively, but our windows folk didn't muc

Re: OT: Cron for windows

2009-08-10 Thread Austin Godber
Looks like XP Scheduled Tasks can do it. Make a daily job, scheduled to repeat "every 10 minutes" until 24 Hours are up. At least this is what the google updater has done to get hourly jobs. Cron under cygwin sounds like a huge drag, especially if you aren't trying to do any other open source

Re: OT: Cron for windows

2009-08-10 Thread Stephen
you beat me to it :-) On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:47 AM, JD Austin wrote: >  Cygwin on windows has cron > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Paul Mooring wrote: >> >> I have a couple of vbscripts I'd like to run on a regular basis (like >> every 10 mins) on a windows server.  The scripts are operat

Re: OT: Cron for windows

2009-08-10 Thread JD Austin
Cygwin on windows has cron On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Paul Mooring wrote: > I have a couple of vbscripts I'd like to run on a regular basis (like > every 10 mins) on a windows server. The scripts are operating properly, but > as far as I can tell windows doesn't allow scheduled jobs mor

OT: Cron for windows

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Mooring
I have a couple of vbscripts I'd like to run on a regular basis (like every 10 mins) on a windows server. The scripts are operating properly, but as far as I can tell windows doesn't allow scheduled jobs more often than once a day. Currently I'm considering using cron on a linux box with freesshd