[RESOLVED] Trying to learn cron

[coldwerturkey]

I need to send a notification email 5 days prior to a subscription running out, I wrote a script (checkstatus.php) and intend on using cron to execute it once daily.

This isn't my server; I have no admin privileges and/or access to anything besides the ftp dir.

My question are,
1) What do I need to request the server admin to edit/change to allow me to use cron, (the Server API = CGI/FastCGI, System = Windows NT SERVER6 5 (does cron work on windows?))
2) once my account has everything setup; how do I execute/enter my command that I assembled after a few hours on google (as posted below)

# crontab –e

1 0 * * * E:\web\public_html\mww\my_account_username\checkstatus.php

Thanks!

[dagon]

cron is a linux command so it wont work on windows, you will need to use the windows scheduler (or what ever its called)

[Kudose]

Here is a useful link I found: http://manual.b2evolution.net/Set_up_a_Windows_Scheduled_Task

[coldwerturkey]

Thank you all!