Re: Scheduled tasks won't start



The file "c:\Program Files\xdbdown\xdbdown.cmd" is in
itself a batch file. This raises two questions:

a) Does it exist?
b) What does it contain?

Please cut & past its contents into your reply.


"Rafi Hecht" <rhecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1133885247.227982.191940@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Okay. This is the EXACT SYNTAX of the eyes.bat file that I have:
>
> @echo off
> echo %date% %time% Start of task > c:\test.log
> echo User=%UserName%, Path=%path% >> c:\test.log
> "c:\Program Files\xdbdown\xdbdown.cmd" 1>>c:\test.log 2>c:\test.err
> echo ErrorLevel of "c:\Program Files\xdbdown\xdbdown.cmd"=%ErrorLevel%
> >> c:\test.log
> echo %date% %time% End of task >> c:\test.log
>
> and here's what I have from test.err:
>
> "The system cannot find the file specified."
>
> and from test.log:
>
> "Tue 12/06/2005 11:03:43.19 Start of task
> User=Administrator, Path=
>
> ERROR: this script needs Windows 2000 or better."
>
> Now here's the thing. I am already running windows 2000 server, and the
> filepath is correct! So right now I am at a loss at what to do here!
>


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