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| Reply To: | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 21 Oct 1997 15:37:43 -0700378_US-ASCII Why don't you just get the person responsible for selecting random employees a 10 sided die used in Fantasy Role Playing games and save your computer system valuable CPU cycles? They only cost around one U.S. dollar. Tracy Johnson Minister of Propaganda, Justin Thyme Productions [log in to unmask]"Semper Pollus" ADC-2239-553143_21Oct199715:37: [log in to unmask] |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Oct 1997 16:15:36 -0500 |
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> >But what are my options for having the 3K kick off a batch job on our NT
> >server? I would like to initiate the job after ftping a file, but the NT
ftp
> >service does not seem to support this from the SITE command. DCE / RPC is
not
> >available from the 3K without buying it and learning it first. Sockets
are
> >available, but would likewise have to be learned. We can kludge a batch
job
> >to run AT a starting time, check for the file, then SLEEP for n minutes,
or
> >reschedule itself AT a later time, but that kind of stinks too. Ideas?
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> Moments like these, I question my commitment to heterogeneous
> environments...
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Really, now, Unix system admins do this sort of thing all the time and thing
nothing of it. So what if it is ugly, if it works?:->
Can NT even do cron?
Richard Gambrell
Manager of Systems and Applications, Xavier Univ. of LA, New Orleans, LA
work: [log in to unmask] 504-483-7454
home: [log in to unmask] 504-455-7105
(over 10 years MPE/iX and HP-UX systems and Powerhouse programming
expertise, resume available upon request)
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