Static JPEG/PNG image creation from MapServer

[Gregor Mosheh]

> We have a requirement to periodically (every 5 minutes) automatically
> create a 'snapshot' image of the MapServer map as either a png or jpeg
> file on the server where MapServer is running.

Check out the "shp2img" utility that's part of Mapserver.
That sounds like what you want.

Example usage:
shp2img -m mapfile.map -o snapshot.png