MKS Toolkit
Scheduling Solutions Guide



MKS Inc.
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Fairfax VA 22033-3831 USA
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http://www.mkssoftware.com

July 2005

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Basics of Windows Scheduling
  3. The Windows Task Scheduler

    Overview of the MKS Toolkit Scheduling Suite

    MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    The MKS Toolkit Command-Line Scheduling Utilities

    MKS AlertCentre

  4. Using the MKS Toolkit Scheduling Suite
  5. The MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    Launching the MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    Creating a Task

    Editing a Task

    Editing the Properties of a Task

    Editing the Schedule for a Task

    Deleting a Task

    Copying a Task

    Running a Scheduled Task Immediately

    Stopping a Task

    The Properties Dialog

    The Schedule Dialog

    The Date Area

    The Time Area

    Receiving Feedback

    The at Utility

    Specifying the Time

    Specifying the Task to be Run

    Reading a Task from a File

    Entering a Task from Your Keyboard

    Using Output from Another Program

    Running a Task with a Shell

    Receiving Feedback

    Queues

    Listing a Task

    Deleting a Task

    The batch Utility

    The wts utility

    Specifying Tasks and Times

    Running a Task Remotely

    Naming a Task

    Running a Scheduled Task Immediately

    Running a Task as SYSTEM

    Editing a Task

    Listing a Task

    Deleting a Task

    The crontab Utility

    Creating a crontab File

    Format of a crontab File

    Receiving Feedback

    Editing a crontab File

    Listing a crontab File

    Deleting a crontab File

    Rebuilding a crontab File

    Synchronizing a crontab File

    The taskrun Utility

  6. Solutions
  7. Regular Clean-up of Temporary Files

    With the crontab Utility

    With the MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    Regular File Archival

    With the crontab Utility

    With the MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    Regular File Backups

    With the MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    With the crontab Utility

    Quiet Time Internet File Retrieval

    With the MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    With the at and wts Utilities

    Weekend Mail Forwarding

    With the MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    With the crontab Utility

    Scheduling Automated Builds and Testing

    With the MKS Toolkit Scheduler

    With the crontab Utility

  8. Troubleshooting
  1. Configuring the MKS Toolkit Scheduling Suite
  2. Installing the Windows Task Scheduler

    The Authentication Password

    The MKS Toolkit Control Panel Applet

    The rsetup Utility

    Environment Variables

  3. Importing UNIX crontab Files

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