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By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:14:46 +0000

… or you could use the built-in task scheduler of Windows…

By: lainwired

lainwired — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:53:01 +0000

Wow. nice tip. i need to check out hat z-cron

By: Alvin Finn

Alvin Finn — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:59:12 +0000

I’ve been using nnCron for many years and it’s always been flawless. Unlike Z-Cron, nnCron has no GUI as it uses the standard unix crontab format. I think this is actually easier because once you take a few minutes to understand the crontab format, setting up a new job is trivial. I don’t know about the memory footprint of Z-Cron, but nnCron is extremely lightweight and stable.

By: BobCFC

BobCFC — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:37:51 +0000

Cron is so powerful. Many times I want to go to bed at 4am but I have a download that still has 15mins to go so I just type something like

sudo halt 4:30

And I can goto sleep knowing that my system will shut itself down.