Re: [Wrapper-user] Regarding the service

[Leif M. <le...@ta...>]

Sal,
    Thanks, learn something new every day.   It was preinstalled on my 
XP(Home Edition)
box.  That looks fairly useful.  I wonder why there appears to be such a 
large market for
tools that effectively do the same thing though...  Are there problems 
with this tool?   I
played with it a bit and it seems to work fine so far.

Cheers,
Leif

Sal Ingrilli wrote:

>i've always used "at", the windows scheduler.  run "at" from a command
>prompt.
>i believe on some windows installations it is not installed automatically
>(just add it from the windows cd).
>with this you can schedule recurring jobs, like a daily .bat (or wrapper -c
>wrapper.conf) at a given time.
>with this you can also schedule jobs on system events like startup/shutdown.
>
>the "at" scheduler also has a UI. to get to the windows scheduler on my xp
>box i click on this:
>Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Scheduled Tasks
>
>also, last time i used a win98 box i found that it has a very similar
>scheduler to "at", but not quite like it.
>i ended up using it to simulate services by scheduling "wrapper -c
>wrapper.conf" on system startup.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wra...@li...
>[mailto:wra...@li...]On Behalf Of Leif
>Mortenson
>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:08 PM
>To: wra...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Wrapper-user] Regarding the service
>
>
>Sal Ingrilli wrote:
>
>  
>
>>you don't need the service wrapper.
>>
>>just use the windows/unix scheduler to schedule execution of a batch
>>file that runs your program
>>    
>>
>
>UNIX has cron jobs, but what exists on Windows.  I had actually looked
>for something a
>while back and was only able to locate a few overpriced commercial
>solutions.   I ended
>up having the Java program running 24x7, but with its main thread in a
>wait state until the
>time that the actual job needed to run.
>
>Doing a google search on "Windows Scheduler" turns up several options
>now.  A couple
>have free versions as well.
>
>Leif
>  
>