Scheduling a PERL script

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi , I have a PERL script which I need to run only once a week at a particular time. Could I trigger the Perl script to run automatically at the predetermined time? What is the best way to do this scheduling. I'm on a Windows machine. Need some help on this. Thanks!!

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Re: Scheduling a PERL script by thatguy (Parson) on Oct 06, 2001 at 00:28 UTC
windows has a task scheduler. it's part of the 98/ME/2000 install. also, cygwin has a version of cron that is avaliable for windows. -p	[reply]
Re: Scheduling a PERL script by Albannach (Monsignor) on Oct 06, 2001 at 00:29 UTC
While you could have your Perl app kill time using sleep, it would still be sitting in (virtual) memory which seems rather silly for a once-a-week task. The conventional approach is to use the unix `cron` utility or under NT the `at` command. Here's a discussion with some useful information, or you could feed Super Search some keywords like `qw(Win32 NT cron at)` and see what else appears. -- I'd like to be able to assign to an luser	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Scheduling a PERL script by RayRay459 (Pilgrim) on Oct 06, 2001 at 01:49 UTC
I use this unix toolset for NT called AINTX. It works really well. i have used the cron feature on this with much success. the url is: `http://maxx.mc.net/~jlh/nttools/html/nttools.htm` [download] You can also use Task schedular that comes on win32 products or have your script sleep for 604800 seconds :) Ray	[reply] [d/l]