perl exe scheduler

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

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Re: perl exe scheduler by almut (Canon) on Jun 06, 2009 at 13:07 UTC
In case you're referring to unsolicited console windows popping up (not entirely sure), you might want to see How to hide/inhibit the console window when launching a Perl script on Windows?.	[reply]
Re: perl exe scheduler by Marshall (Canon) on Jun 06, 2009 at 17:17 UTC
What you need is a different way of starting the Perl program in Windows. You can make a .bat file with a START command: `START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE \| /SHARED] [/LOW \| /NORMAL \| /HIGH \| /REALTIME] [/WAIT] [/B] [command / program] [parameters]` [download] The /MIN flag will start the command in minimized mode. read more here: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntstart.php There are other links..this was first one I came across. This command was introduced in NT4 and is available on 2K, XP, etc. Note that it can also specify the priority. If your script causes any performance problems, use the /LOW option to explicitly lower the process priority to lower than normal. There are many more priority levels available in Windows, but these few are usually enough! Default of normal usually is the ticket. Update: there maybe some way to type this command into some box in the scheduler..but if not make a .bat file and start it.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: perl exe scheduler by rovf (Priest) on Jun 08, 2009 at 13:19 UTC
As this has already been answered well, here a completely different approach, just in case you would like to see one more alternative: I'm running my scheduled perl programs using the cron utility which comes with cygwin. Though it might be questionable whether this is worth to install cygwin just for this purpose, maybe you already do have installed some cygwin packages and just need to add cron... -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]