sorry, i should have also pointed out... this isn't something that PHP could handle on it's own, well, it COULD, but you shouldn't. you could write a PHP code to run continuosly in the background, but people would poke and laugh at you... ideally you have something to schedule the PHP script to run when you need it, rather than the PHP script waking up and doing it's stuff when it should...
----- Original Message ----- From: "skate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Phil Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] I need a PHP alternative to Windows Scheduled Tasks > you could have a look at AINTX, it's a windows port of the *nix cron > > alternatively, if you've got a few bucks lying around, go buy yourself a > really old PC, install *nix on it, and use that to run your scheduled > cron's. they're much more reliable and obviously, if your not using that > machine, then there's a much lower chance of anything dying. > > if you can't do this, and AINTX doesn't do the job, run a quick google > search for cron on windows. there's lots of versions ported across... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:13 AM > Subject: [PHP] I need a PHP alternative to Windows Scheduled Tasks > > > I have concluded that Bill Gates is Satan! > > Ok, I'm late, but... I have had 26 scheduled tasks that run every hour on > the hour every day for eternity to go and run a series of Java files I wrote > that connect remotely to a remote server to do remote cleanup of stray XML > files, etc.; things I cannot do on the remote machine box itself because > it's remote and I don't have permissions were I physically on the box > anyway. > > However, on 7/18 all 26 of my scheduled tasks stopped running; one of which > continuously ran for 4 days straight w/o stopping (nor could I manually stop > it). I deleted the runaway process and recreated it; now not a single one > of my 26 scheduled Win2000 tasks I created using MS-DOS AT commands work > (which were working since 7/2). > > I am now looking into programmatic alternatives. I really could use some > ideas that are practical given my situation. I'm thinking PHP since I am > very comfortable with it, were it possible within my bizarre Win2000 > environment, but I need something that will clean those XML files remotely > on a regular basis, it's important for website maintenance. Any help > appreciated. > > Thanx > Phil > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
