Re: Win2K Task Scheduler says running but it's not

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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:58:19 -0600

Scheduled Tasks|Advanced|View Log may provide some details. If the job
connects to another machine you may need to add the user/ group 'logon as
batch job' rights (server side). Control Panel|Admin Tools|Local Security
Policy\Local Policies\User Rights Assignments
"Log on as a batch job"

Remember that if it involves network resources to make sure the user account
has permissions to the resources and also use UNC paths as mapped drives
won't exist when no one is logged on.

This article may help.

Result Codes in Scheduled Tasks Indicate an Error Occurred in the Task
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q267031

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"David Frankenbach" wrote:
| Ever since we applied the latest round of Windows Updates to a Win2K 
machine
| the task scheduled on the box will fire off at the scheduled time and the
| status displays as Running, but the program is in fact NOT running. The 
exe
| had been running flawlessly once a week for the last 5 years. I know it's
| not really running because the first thing it does is create a log file 
and
| begins writing progress information into it. It shows up as a _process_ in
| taskman, but not as an _application_.
|
| If I double click the exe from windows explorer it runs fine.
|
| We've been through a couple of reboots, stopping/restarting the scheduler,
| deleting the task and setting it back up again, verified that the Run As
| credentials are correct, nothing has worked. We've even tried setting up a
| new task that just launches Notepad.exe or Calc.exe and they exhibit the
| same behavior.
|
| Is there a hotfix for the now quite broken scheduler? Some obtuse
| configuration that needs to be changed? A registry hack?
|
| df
|
| 

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