Run a CF program as a background process?

I want to write a ColdFusion program that sends an email to a list of people whenever a particular column in a database is edited. I know how to do this, but I want it to run automatically everyday, rather than me having to run it myself. Is there a way to do this??

 

Sure you want to set a cron job, or something similar to run the file.

Here are a few solutions

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1DVCB_enUS348US348&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=coldfusion+cron+job

 

This is an old link but still basically the same and its built into ColdFusion: http://www.quackit.com/coldfusion/coldfusion_scheduled_tasks.cfm