BackgrounDRB

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Hi all,

I’m developing on windows, and I need to do task scheduling.

BackgrounDRB seems to be the right solution, but it doesn’t work for
windows…

The question is: what’s your suggestion for any BackgrounDRB alternative
under windows?

Thanks in Advance

Stefano

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Hi Stefano,

Stefano B. wrote:

I’m developing on windows, and I need
to do task scheduling.

BackgrounDRB seems to be the right solution,
but it doesn’t work for windows…

The new version doesn’t work for Windows, but the original version does.
It
may suit your needs. OTOH, ‘task scheduling’ makes me think of cron
first,
not BackgrounDRb. BackgrounDRb is typically used for offloading long
running tasks.

HTH,
Bill

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On May 28, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Stefano B. wrote:

I’ll investigate both CRON (hopefully it work for windows) and the
original version of BackgrounDRb as you suggest.

Greetings

Stefano

Nope. Cron is a *nix tool too. Look into AT, which is the Windows
version of cron.

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Bill W. wrote:

Hi Stefano,

Stefano B. wrote:

I’m developing on windows, and I need
to do task scheduling.

BackgrounDRB seems to be the right solution,
but it doesn’t work for windows…

The new version doesn’t work for Windows, but the original version does.
It
may suit your needs. OTOH, ‘task scheduling’ makes me think of cron
first,
not BackgrounDRb. BackgrounDRb is typically used for offloading long
running tasks.

HTH,
Bill

Many thanks Bill,

I’ll investigate both CRON (hopefully it work for windows) and the
original version of BackgrounDRb as you suggest.

Greetings

Stefano

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Steve R. wrote:

On May 28, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Stefano B. wrote:

I’ll investigate both CRON (hopefully it work for windows) and the
original version of BackgrounDRb as you suggest.

Greetings

Stefano

Nope. Cron is a *nix tool too. Look into AT, which is the Windows
version of cron.

Right Steve,

CRON has nothing to do with Windows. Actually I am not able to find
something about AT on Internet, can you point me in the right direction?
(perhaps with a link)

Thanks

Stefano

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Steve R. wrote:

On May 29, 2008, at 3:25 AM, Stefano B. wrote:

Thanks

Stefano

I’m not using Windows, but you might look into:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/guide/sas_man_lpja.mspx?mfr=true

Also see:

http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm
http://cronw.sourceforge.net/
ICron - an implementation of Cron as a Windows service

Although YMMV.

Hi Steve,

well, like you suggest I’ve just tried out Windows Task Scheduler to run
my script.
This is what I actually need.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Stefano

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On May 29, 2008, at 3:25 AM, Stefano B. wrote:

Thanks

Stefano

I’m not using Windows, but you might look into:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/guide/sas_man_lpja.mspx?mfr=true

Also see:

http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm
http://cronw.sourceforge.net/
http://surguy.net/articles/icron.xml

Although YMMV.