Win2000 Scheduled Tasks

[jmbeach]

Can anyone help me determine a way to emulate a scheduled task under Windows 2000? I have a script I'd like to run at scheduled times, but am not quite sure how to make this happen. I don't think H-Sphere has any access to this, but that would make a great added feature.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[vonbrocklin]

I think the only way to do this is to fake it using ASP. Here is one method, there are other similar methods too:

http://www.asp101.com/articles/john/...le/default.asp

[jmbeach]

thanks vonbrocklin:

I actually built a script using the first method, that ran once a week on Monday mornings, and it was triggered by the first user after 12:01am Monday.

The problem with what I'm trying to do now is that the script could potentially take several seconds to run, and it would have to run daily, so I don't want the first person each day to have a delay. With the other script, it was nearly instantaneous, so there was no noticable slow down for that user.

Thanks again, though. I guess I'm looking for more of a real scheduling agent that could somehow tie directly into the server. I know we can't ask for server access, but sure would be a nice feature.

[vonbrocklin]

Screw the first visitor at 12:01! It's not like it will ever be the same person twice. Seriously though, I'm pretty sure this is your only option for scheduling tasks on a shared windows server. Could be wrong, good luck.

WinCron, I doubt this would ever get installed.

[jmbeach]

WinCron looks good, but you're probably right, that would be asking a lot of Matrix... sigh.

vonbrocklin, I agree, I shouldn't worry too much about that user, but I wish there was a way for their Session_OnStart to trigger the event, but for the event to run behind their session...

With all the processing power of the men in this forum (according to electricfox's post a few days ago) we should be able to come up with a solution

I'll keep looking.