Scheduling a job in intervals of X minutes using director

dannyna · Post by **dannyna** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 8:39 am

Hi Experts,

I have a need to schedule many jobs, 6 days a week, starting at certain time, and require to run them in intervals(every X minutes).
Instead of sceduling the same job dozens of times, I Scheduled the job, and tried to edit the task in the Windows "Scheduled Tasks". Never the less, this option was disabled. It doesn't seem to be authorization problem since I used also Adminstrator login.
Does anybody have a clue how to edit the task or solve the demand otherwise?

Regards

Danny

gradkarthik · Post by **gradkarthik** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:35 pm

Hi Dhannya,
Can you explain your requirement a bit more. do you want to run the jobs indefinitely at regular intervals? or you want to run them a specified number or times at regular intervals in a day.
clarify your situation
karthik

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 4:09 am

Use a job sequence with a loop including execution of your job, calculation of the next start time, and sleep.

Schedule this job sequence to start at 08:00 daily, for example.

dannyna · Post by **dannyna** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:10 am

Thanks,

That will definitly work. It's a pity I cannot edit the task to my requirements and use a generic feature.

Danny

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:35 pm

The "scheduler" window in Director isn't a scheduler in its own right - it's merely an interface to the operating system scheduler (cron or at) and is limited by the lowest common set of functionality of those schedulers.