Automated updating of Excite indexes

[Bobb Menk]

Anyone using the excite search engine who'd be willing to give me 
the benefit of their experience in automating the updating of 
indexes?  (Both remotely and locally)

Barring that, I can break the problem into a few parts that perhaps 
some of you can advise on the pieces and I can solve the greater 
problem by fixing the smaller ones.

A canned perl script ships with excite that in theory will update 
given indexes when you invoke it with the index name as a parameter.

1) How can I get NT 3.51 to execute a *.pl file from the command 
line?  

2) How can I get a remote UNIX host to execute the same perl script 
at a specified time when I have access only to my own web portion of 
said UNIX host?

Any suggestions or help greatly appreciated.  I will happily 
summarize for the list or anyone else.

Bobb Menk, Internet Librarian, Lane Memorial Library
Hampton, NH 03842  603-926-3368
bmenk at hampton.lib.nh.us