Heh, I was just informed by a colleague that this is a unix/linux solution. I forget that windows is not the default in this community and that I need to include in all posts that I am unfortunately doing this all from windows.
Also, unfortunately we aren’t allowed to use task scheduler at this time on the clustered servers, so while that would be a very simple solution, I can’t use it and that’s why I was trying to do this with alerts.