Re: task scheduler

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What is your question?

Did you schedule the batch file I suggested?
What happened?

Task that run under the Task Scheduler are designed
to run in the background and are designed to be
invisible to the foreground question.


"don" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When you run a batch job, it shows up on the windows task bar. When you
run
it thru the scheduler does it also show up on the task bar? I see
mstask.exe
running and when I open the dos window i see multiple executions of the
batch
file I want to run.
--
Don


"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

You're obviously missing a few steps. Create a batch file like so:
@echo off
echo %date% %time% >> c:\test.txt

then do this to run it once every 5 minutes:
1. Control Panel / Task Scheduler
2. Add Scheduled Task.
3. Specify the name of the above batch file.
4. Give the baby a name.
5. Select the "Daily" radio button.
6. Set the time to 0:00, and select "Every Day".
7. Enter the account details.
8. Click "Advanced properties" + Finish
9. Click "Schedule".
10. Click "Advanced".
11. Repeat the task every 5 minutes, and make the duration 24 hours.

Now check c:\test.txt and convince yourself that the task
does run every 5 minutes. When it works as expected,
apply the above methods to your own batch files.


"don" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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After making the changes that you suggested, nothing runs. I used one
of
the
old jobs and made the changes you suggested. Then i created a brand
new
job
and the only thing I see running is MTTask.exe.

Don


"don" wrote:

We are using window2003 scheduler to run the same batch file at
2:00a
3:00am,4:00am,5:00am, 6:00am and 7:00am on a daily schedule. The
schedule
task = daily, start time =1:35am on 8/2/2004, every 1 days. Under
settings we
have stop task if runs for 72 hrs, no advanced schedule option.
This
process
works every day of the week except Sunday night. When we come in on
Monday
none of the scheduled tasks are running and we have to start them
manually. I
don't know fi it means anything but the scripts are java scripts
(payment
clients) that create a transaction path between our touchnet payment
gateway
and our e.r.p system. This allows students to pay on-line at
anytime of
the
day.It's been running like this since 8/2/2004, my predecessor
couldn't
figure out why the jobs don't run Sunday night.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
--
Don





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