Daily script kickoff and output question

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

If I have a script (on an NT server) that checks web links how can I get the script to run once a day like a cron job in unix. Basically I want it to kick off the script automatically on the NT server at a certain time each day. Right now the script sends me back the bad links to my DOS screen. If I could make it run once a day I would like it to send me an email with the output or write it to a log file. Please advise.

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Re: Daily script kickoff and output question by gav^ (Curate) on Feb 25, 2002 at 23:18 UTC
Look up the `at` command. This link should help. gav^	[reply]
Re: Re: Daily script kickoff and output question by Anonymous Monk on Feb 26, 2002 at 14:18 UTC
Thanks, I appreciate all of your replies!	[reply]
Re: Daily script kickoff and output question by screamingeagle (Curate) on Feb 25, 2002 at 23:39 UTC
here's a good article for the Windows 2000 Task Scheduler Win2K Task Scheduler	[reply]
Re: Daily script kickoff and output question by petral (Curate) on Feb 25, 2002 at 23:21 UTC
(as gav^ just said: )Check out `AT` in dos. Then look at "My Computer"-> "Scheduled Tasks". You can redirect to a file same as unix ( `> x:\full\path\logfile 2>&1`). And that's it (that's really it, you can't do much of anything else as far as I know!). p	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Daily script kickoff and output question by Anonymous Monk on Feb 26, 2002 at 16:36 UTC
I tried and was able to schedule job but no output showed on the DOS screen at the time the job was suppose to work. I also tried to output it to a file and still no luck. Anyone ever successfully schedule a job using 'at' in NT? Anyone ever get a successful output on screen and in an output file?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Daily script kickoff and output question by petral (Curate) on Feb 26, 2002 at 16:49 UTC
Only to a file by using redirection and absolute file names. p	[reply]
Re: Daily script kickoff and output question by perrin (Chancellor) on Feb 26, 2002 at 00:05 UTC
I do this on a Win2000 machine using the scheduled tasks feature and Mail::Sendmail. Very easy to use.	[reply]