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

From: Dave Patrick (DSPatrick_at_nOsPAM.gmail.com)
Date: 09/16/05 

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:57:19 -0600

I would certainly try this again when logged on locally at the console. When
you RDP in you're stealing the local session and strangeness with regards to
Task Scheduler and your app may result. 

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"David Frankenbach" wrote:
| Roger,
|
| Since this machine is a running process box as part of a much larger
| network, no, we don't have automatic updates turned on. Machines go 
through
| scheduled maintence cycles where updates are applied. I just checked the 
box
| right now and there are no high priority updates to install. DirectX 9.0c
| and Windows Media Player 9 are the only available updates to install and
| they are not likely to ever be installed because this is a server not a
| desktop machine. From the WindowsUpdate.log file the most recent updates 
it
| went through updates were on 7/26, 8/17, 8/18, 8/29, 9/6, 9/13 and 9/16.
| Everything since the 8/29 update have been our attempts to resolve this 
task
| scheduler problem. Because the first failure to run that we had was the 
9/3
| run of the job.
|
| How can I tell if the v2 rollup was applied?
|
| The real task has a Run As user which is the same user that is always 
logged
| into the machine.
|
| When I run the exe from explorer it is running as the currently logged in
| user.
|
| Can you try setting up a brand new task to launch notepad, either schedule
| it to run in a couple of minutes or right click and select run and see 
what
| happens?
|
| I'm not sitting at the machine itself it's in a server room in another
| building, I connect to it via Remote Desktop from an XP Pro machine over 
our
| network. I use the same user to connect to the machine I don't use my 
login.
|
| I posted this same message in the universalthread.com before here and
| another user in Australia has confirmed that since 8/29 his tasks are
| failing in this same fashion.
|
| df (MVP Visual FoxPro)

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