NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/22223

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Schedule daily job?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:58:08 PDT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Beckman Instruments
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Philip Perucci) writes:
> Is there any way to submit a daily job other than "submit" at boot-time
> and having the job "submit" itself when done?
>
> On Unix, there is a "crontab" file for scheduling processes.  You just tell
> it month,week,day,time and program to run. No need to re-submit!
> Any way to do this on VMS?
>
There are no native VMS facilities for this.  There are several vendor supplied
products (such as DEC's DECScheduler), and several public domain ones (several
on the DECUS tapes) such as a port of cron, one called SCHEDULER, and I think
one or two others.
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>   phil perucci                | "Any opinions expressed are my own views,
>   [e-mail] |  not the position of any organization"
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