[thelist] Running cron on NT?

Michael Pemberton mpember at phreaker.net
Thu Aug 30 21:24:45 CDT 2001


The "at" command creates a scheduled task on a machine.  There are
switches to control all the settings that are normally done using the
GUI.

If you want to use the at command on remote machines.  Have a look at
the SysInternals' PSTools package: 

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml

It includes a tool called PsExec.  This allows you to execute a command
on a remote PC and even allows for starting cmd.exe to open a fully
functional command prompt.

This uses the RPC service in NT/2000 and will require it to be running
on the other machine.

Hope this clears things up a little.

"Pearson, John" wrote:
> 
> how does AT differ from the "Scheduled Tasks" service on win2k.  Ive always used
> this for regularly scheduled jobs, several a night, and it seems to be easy to
> setup and run.  Howwver I see it wont run on a remote machine.  Is this the
> difference?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CDitty [mailto:mail at redhotsweeps.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:52 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] Running cron on NT?
> 
> Can someone give me specifics on how to run a script at certain times on a
> nt system?  I know that you use the "at" command to call the browser with
> the page, but how do you get the page to close after it is done? Or, can
> you load ie in the background?  I searched MS knowledge base, but was
> unable to find anything useful.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris
> 
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