Posted by Jon Slaughter on 06/05/07 20:34

"Toby A Inkster" <usenet200705@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote in message
news:unjgj4-h76.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk...
> Jon Slaughter wrote:
>
>> I assume this is bash stuff? (I haven't done any unix scripting in a very
>> long time and very little but I assume the other posts give the script
>> that
>> will work here). I just remember there being several types
>
> Cron doesn't specifically require bash scripting.
>
> Cron can be used to launch any executable file at a frequency of up to
> once per minute. (Or as infrequent as once every 28 years[1] if need be,
> but that seems a bit excessive -- if something needs scheduling that
> infrequently, you're better off running it manually.)
>
> These executables could be bash scripts, tcsh scripts, Perl scripts,
> compiled C code, or raw machine code written in a hex editor if you
> like -- anything that you could run from the command line can run from
> cron.
>
> That said, most people do seem to use either Perl or some form of shell
> scripting for cron jobs.
>

Thanks... I'll try to do some more research on it and see what I come up
with... on what to do. I like the idea of using php but I think it won't be
fast enough so I'll look into doing it in C++ and then figure out how to run
it(since I'm on a windows machine I'll have to compile it for linux somehow)

Jon

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