kalab.com's Cron: scheduler for the rest of us

Cron is a great utility for scheduling windows jobs. It runs as a service, accepts parameters and will execute any dos command you can throw at it. I am currently using it to upload a disaster recovery document to a web server at work. It works like a charm. Cron, a Crontab document (no more than a text file really) and a few ftp commands later (at least for my project), and wha-lah! You have the best little scheduler you could ever want. There are a few versions of it you can download. One is PyCron, written in Python, which has some more features than the Cron version. While I think there could have been a more distinctive name for the program, I found it particularly useful and powerful. Instructions for use are right on the main page. they seem a bit hefty at first, but a few minutes and you'll be off and running.

Tags: cron, crontab, freedbacking, freeware, opensource, windows