On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:44:02 +0200:
It has to run this way, since the webpage is on a Windows server, and the Windows scheduled tasks doesn't work as well.
I'd rather look there why it doesn't work for you. Scheduled tasks works just fine on my Windows servers. I'm not getting an email from them, if that is what you want, though. Btw, you can also install cron on Windows!
Kai
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Hi Kai,
Even though it would be ideal for it to run on the Windows server, the scheduled tasks simple doesn't work reliably. The script that needs to be triggered is WHMCS's (http://www.whmcs.com)%27s billing & support crons. The support cron needs to run every 5 minutes, and the billing one every hour.
When I set it up on the Windows server, it will work fine for a week or even 3, and then stops working without any warnings. According to Windows, it is running, but I never actually get the billing to work. Our clients was supposed to be invoiced on the 25th, and they didn't get their invoices, and it's now the 30th already.
So, I decided to use something that I know, cron.
I simply need to call 2 php scripts via a website - very simple todo, but cron tends to give me these errors for some odd reason, and the scripts doesn't run on the remote website.