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Cron for Windows

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Wanted to deploy an application on a Windows server. The application had features that would work only if cron was setup to call a particular php page at fixed intervals. Doing this on Linux is a job of two minutes. But I did not know how to do cron on Windows. And this is something that I have not even bothered to find out for years!

Always told people that you should be on Linux if you want such features. Windows is not acceptable :)

And if the client persisted, we did a SQL server job setup or Windows Scheduled Task feature!

Today I thought otherwise. Thought I must find some cron replacement for Windows. Couple of searches later, I found pycron. It’s a great free solution for setting up crons just the way you would do on Linux. Comes also with a GUI!

So next time you want to setup a cron on Windows, try out pycron!

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Written by Nirav

September 11th, 2007 at 8:52 am

Posted in GNU/Linux, Technology

 

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  1. Hi Nirav,

    want a free license of a better scheduler? Try VisualCron. Just write to us and you will get one.

    best regards,

    Henrik
    http://www.visualcron.com

    Henrik

    23 Sep 07 at 8:42 pm

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