something like cron on Windows?

External Since: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 2

I have Windows XP professional. Is there ANYTHING reliable on Windows
that is like cron on UNIX that will allow you run something at regular
intervals, for example, like every 10 minutes?

I would like to change a (static/.html) web page every 10 minutes using
PHP, is there a way to do this? I have an Apache/PHP/MySql also, so
maybe theres a way to do it through these programs. Has any one done
this before? How?

AT will not do what I want, and SCHTASKS has a lot of bugs, and will not
allow me to run a program in the background.

-d

External Since: Jul 26, 2004 Posts: 1

"Doug" <dougd99 DeleteThis @earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I have Windows XP professional. Is there ANYTHING reliable on Windows
> that is like cron on UNIX that will allow you run something at regular
> intervals, for example, like every 10 minutes?
>
> I would like to change a (static/.html) web page every 10 minutes using
> PHP, is there a way to do this? I have an Apache/PHP/MySql also, so
> maybe theres a way to do it through these programs. Has any one done
> this before? How?

I'm assuming this is for a web site? The only 'frig' I've ever used when I
haven't had access to something like cron is to use some code on a page that
checks for the time and then runs some code if it's appropriate.

The only 'gotcha' is that you have to be running a site that has enough
visitors to do this.

Have you seen this? I just found it by doing a seach on Google for con
windows:

http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm

Hope this helps

Andy