unix, -> "man crontab"
wincron also exists, but you can use scheduled tasks in windows too
regards
At 17:19 10/01/2002, you wrote:
>I am not familiar with cron. Could you expound? Is it Unix or Windows
>based? Where can I get it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ron
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul DuBois [mailto:paul@stripped]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:33 PM
>To: Jeffrey Lomas; mysql@stripped
>Subject: Re: scheduling tasks within MySQL
>
>At 15:16 -0500 1/9/02, Jeffrey Lomas wrote:
> >I'm fairly new to mysql. I have need for certain actions to occur
> >within a database at a certain time every month. What is the best
> >way to go about doing this? Is there a way to schedule these
> >actions from within mysql?
>
>No. Use cron to schedule jobs.
>
> >
> >Thanks
> >jeff
>
>
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