Re: Scheduled Tasks

From: Howard Hartman (postmaster_at_neteast.com)
Date: 10/29/04


Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:06:26 -0400


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Can you please explain the numbers in the AT statement you provided? I
understand the syntax.

Thanks.

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
news:uwy7XNUvEHA.3976@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> There was a similar post in a different newsgroup a few days ago.
> The OP ultimately resolved his problem by using at.exe to
> schedule his jobs, instead of the Task Scheduler. It may be
> necessary to change the Service Account in order for such
> tasks to be able to access network resources - use the
> Advanced pull down menu in the Task Scheduler.
>
> To schedule a task to run every 10 minutes under at.exe:
>
> for /L %h in (0,1,23) do for /L %m in (0,5,55) do at %h:%m
> /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su c:\tools\sometask.exe
>
> (unwrap line)
>
>
> "Howard Hartman" <postmaster@neteast.com> wrote in message
> news:e%23fm6LQvEHA.3840@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
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>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> Yes, I did check that. If that was not set correctly, the task wouldn't
> run
>> at all.
>> This is a monitoring task that runs every 10 minutes around the clock.
>> It
>> has
>> worked fine for up to 6 hours, then fails. Once it fails, it does not
>> succeed again
>> until I intervene and reset the password.
>>
>> I've seen Microsoft Knowledge Base article 811155 which describes this
> event
>> log
>> error as it relates to starting service. It does not talk about
>> scheduled
>> tasks failing,
>> however I have a feeling the cause may be the same.
>>
>> Howard
>>
>> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
>> news:Obx90mPvEHA.2536@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> >
>> > "Howard Hartman" <postmaster@neteast.com> wrote in message
>> > news:%23heYtfPvEHA.3896@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> >>
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>> >> Hello.
>> >>
>> >> I have an unusual problem on three Windows 2000 servers.
>> >>
>> >> Each of these servers runs the same set of scheduled tasks which work
>> >> fine
>> >> for a few hours.
>> >> After a few hours, however, the scheduled tasks stop running and fail
>> >> with
>> >> "Could Not Start".
>> >>
>> >> The event log shows that the scheduled tasks are failing because "The
>> >> user
>> >> has not been granted the
>> >> requested logon type at this machine".
>> >>
>> >> I've tried removing the tasks completely and rebuilding them and that
> did
>> >> not solve the problem.
>> >>
>> >> Just resetting the password to what it currently is for the user in
>> >> the
>> >> scheduled task properties is
>> >> enough to get the task working again for a few hours.
>> >>
>> >> This server is Windows 2000 SP4.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone have an idea of what to look at or how to fix this?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
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>> > Did you check if your policy allows the selected account
>> > to log in as a batch job?
>> >
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