Thu Sep 25, 2008, 12:39pm
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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp
Well, cron is a daemon that runs in the background on any Unix-base OS (such as Mac OS X, solaris, Linux, BSD, etc.), and all it does is kick off jobs that you set on a "crontab." The crontab says when exactly certain commands or scripts should be run, and on what schedule (such as "Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12 PM").
So basically, I've set my web server at home (which happens to be a Mac server, as well as the server running the slow-pitch umpiring website I've mentioned before) to be the machine that periodically runs this script every day at noon. I'm going to have to modify the script a little to account for the fact that Time Warner probably wouldn't want me sending 20 emails of the same content to different recipients in under 5 seconds (spam? what's that?).
The script won't work on a Windows machine, as Windows doesn't use the same commands that Unix flavors do. It'd have about the same reaction to my script as Skahtboi did to my previous post (ie., "wtf?").
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lol and I thought i was a 'puter nerd.... Dude you rock!!
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