Re: I need a PHP alternative to Windows Scheduled Tasks

Hi, Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 7:13:17 PM, you wrote: PP> I have concluded that Bill Gates is Satan! PP> Ok, I'm late, but... I have had 26 scheduled tasks that run every hour on the hour every PP> day for eternity to go and run a series of Java files I wrote that connect remotely to a remote PP> server to PP> do remote cleanup of stray XML files, etc.; things I cannot do on the remote machine box PP> itself because it's remote and I don't have permissions were I physically on the box PP> anyway. PP> However, on 7/18 all 26 of my scheduled tasks stopped running; one of which continuously ran PP> for 4 days straight w/o stopping (nor could I manually stop it). I deleted the runaway process and PP> recreated it; now not a single one of my 26 scheduled Win2000 tasks I created using MS-DOS AT PP> commands work (which were working since 7/2). PP> I am now looking into programmatic alternatives. I really could use some ideas that are PP> practical given my situation. I'm thinking PHP since I am very comfortable with it, were it PP> possible PP> within my bizarre Win2000 environment, but I need something that will clean those XML files PP> remotely on a regular basis, it's important for website maintenance. Any help appreciated. PP> Thanx PP> Phil have a look for a file similar to this one and delete it, that should get your scheduler running again while you upgrade to linux :) C:\Documents and Settings\username_here\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\S-1-5-21-789336058-1788223648-682003330-1000 its the S-1... file -- regards, Tom