Others have mentioned AT and WinAT, and it is the standard NT solution for these problems. However, a number of people have, over the years, reported problems with using it with perl scrips and/or batch files -- go to MS's support site and look at article Q142432 for an example. For a sample, go to Activestate's mail archives and search on this subject -- I believe, if my memory serves me correctly, that someone even noted why it fails.

From my own personal experience, I'd recommend using the newer "Scheduled Tasks" application, which, if I recall alright, is installed with IE 5.5. We've used it here for the last year to run perl-based reports that access over 1000+ servers, and perl scripts that died with AT (even after proper usernames were set) run fine with Scheduled Tasks

Also recommended by others (although I've never used it mysely) is cron.pl

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.

In reply to Re: WinDoze NT Automation Question by Asim
in thread WinDoze NT Automation Question by Ducati

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