windows scripting question

[nageov3t]

stupid question, just wondering if this would even be possible...

let's say I've got a service that I absolutely, never want to have running during business hours (but it's fine to run during off-peak hours). there's a command that I can issue via the command prompt to stop the service (and a different command to start it), but would it be possible to script it such that the stop command runs every day at 9 am and the start command runs every day at 6 pm so that no one even has to think about it?

 

[postmark]

Assuming this is Windows you can use scheduled tasks:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/schedule-a-task

For Linux you can use Cron jobs:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/general/set-cron-job.shtml

 

[nageov3t]

Assuming this is Windows you can use scheduled tasks:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/schedule-a-task

For Linux you can use Cron jobs:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/general/set-cron-job.shtml

thanks, just what I was looking for!

yes, this is Windows... I knew it'd be easy enough to do with a cron job in Linux, but formatting this machine wasn't the solution anyone wanted to hear 😛