OT: Cron for windows

[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 much like it as they
perceive it as a one-off.  Then again they didn't get the whole
linux/open-source thing like good windoze people drinking the Redmond
kool-aid.  Anything free can't be *good*, right?

-mb


On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 12:17 -0400, Austin Godber wrote:
> 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 stuff.  Then again, I never liked cygwin.
> 
> Austin
> 
> 
> 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 more often than once a day.  Currently I'm considering using cron 
> > on a linux box with freesshd to accomplish this but it seems like 
> > there would be a cleaner solution.  Anyone know a good cron 
> > alternative for windows servers that let me do this locally on the 
> > windows system? 
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