I have a .jsp file that does some work. I need it to run every night at, let's say 11pm. How can i put it in cron? All it needs to do is to hit that jsp file. let's say the path is http://domain.com/building/floor/room.jsp How can i have cron hit this URL every night? Thank you

Win2K and cron, huh? I don't really know what platform this needs to run on, so ... -Put the job in your crontab -The job executes a script/program that does the HTTP connect, etc ... The script/program that does the connect should be in a language available on Win or Unix. Candidates are many: Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, and I am sure there are many others ....... Guy

No, i'm not trying to run it on Win machine. It will be running on Unix sever. So i just need to know if it's possible not writing the script but simply call the java class file in cron so that it will execute it. Something like this: 00 23 * * * /usr/j2se/bin/java -classpath /abc/webserver/https-myserver/../../RunCreateRandomFiles.class Ans this class would do the required work... ???