I am trying to create a Task Scheduler task to start my SQL Server 2005 instance every morning, because something stops it every night. This is a temporary solution until I can diagnose the stoppage. I created a task to run under my admin user, and to start the program, cmd with the arguments /c net start mssqlserver. When I manually ...
I have a couple applications that I would like to be able to add scheduled tasks from within them. I've been Googling for how to add tasks in both XP and Vista. Apparently, Vista has a new Task Scheduler that is very different from the one in XP. Does anybody know if there is a single API to tackle both of them, or do I have to code for...
My division has been tasked with recording the morning presentation audio for future use, using the built-in Windows Sound Recorder. Because of human nature, we don't always remember to start it on time. Windows doesn't have a built-in equivalent to the Unix cron function. Besides installing a new software program (which will take time...
I'm working on a little web crawler that will run in the system tray and crawl a web site every hour on the hour. What is the best way to get .NET to raise an event every hour or some other interval to perform some task. For example I want to run an event every 20 minutes based on the time. The event would be raised at: 00:20 00:40 01:...
I need to create a Windows service that works just like the task scheduler in that I can configure what time it runs and it basically just calls a .NET class at that scheduled time (recurring). What is the recommended way to do this? Also, any information on installing/removing that service would be appreciated! Update: Using the task s...
Is it possible for a parent process to start and stop a child (forked) process in Unix? I want to implement a task scheduler (see here) which is able to run multiple processes at the same time which I believe requires either separate processes or threads. How can I stop the execution of a child process and resume it after a given amoun...
Although some might not think of it as programming related, it certainly is. The task Scheduler is a program. It's launching a process that I have written. Stating that it's a common problem is not very helpful. I've set up my own backup procedures, both on a Windows xP machine at home, and on several at the office, where I use the...
I'm writing a a very small daemon that must remain responsive even when a system is under severe stress. I'm looking at the differences between SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR in regards to scheduling, as well as trying to determine a sensible priority. Which scheduler would be appropriate for a small but critical monitoring daemon, what priori...
The idle task (a.k.a. swapper task) is chosen to run when no more runnable tasks in the run queue at the point of task scheduling. But what is the usage for this so special task? Another question is why i can't find this thread/process in the "ps aux" output (PID=0) from the userland? ...
I'm looking for a C# library, preferably open source, that will let me schedule tasks with a fair amount of flexibility. Specifically, I should be able to schedule things to run every N units of time as well as "Every weekday at XXXX time" or "Every Monday at XXXX time". More features than that would be nice, but not necessary. This i...
Hello, I am trying to write a system restart Task for Windows Vista. I'm a web developer by trade so I'm a little out of my element here. I have got into my OS and discovered Task Scheduler. So far I've been able to set up some various tasks to run small WPF programs by calling the *.exe files. What I really need to do is set up a sys...
I have a program that is running in the background, this program has to be notified when a specific windows event is occurring. I know the name and id for the event and i know how to schedule an action for it in the task scheduler, but here i can only start a new program. I want to call a function in an already running application. Edi...
I need to create and modify tasks in Windows Task Scheduler on Windows Server 2003 from an ASP.NET web application. The Network Service that the web app runs under is unable to make the changes. It errors with an System.UnauthorizedAccessException exception. It works fine running from Visual Studio on my desktop. What permissions do I ...
Are there any alternatives to the Open Source Job Scheduler? I'm looking for a way to gain more control over scheduled work tasks than plain cron is offering, but haven't found anything else but Quartz, which isn't language-neutral. ...
I have a console app that uses two batch files to decompress a zip file, take the xls which was decompressed convert it to CSV and BCP the data into a SQL table. I'd like to schedule this console app to run once a day. I set up windows task scheduler to run said app. I try to "test run" the task and don't get an error. I have the app wri...
I'm wondering what kind(s) of data structures / algorithms might help facilitate handling the following situation; I'm not sure if I need a single FIFO, or a priority queue, or multiple FIFOs. I have N objects that must proceed through a predefined workflow. Each object must complete step 1, then step 2, then step 3, then step 4, etc. E...
I have a little java prog that uses a webservice which needs authorization. So the java prog (which is to be run using windows task scheduler) needs to have a user/password argument. How can I store these somewhere without having them laying around in a file as plaintext? So far I've tried using runtime.getRuntime and CACLS to have a ...
Hello, I am working with Windows 7 and I have an application that returns zero (0x0) when successful and one (0x1) on error situations. I have scheduled this app using Windows Task Scheduler. I have checked the option boxes "If the task fails, restart every" and "Attempt to restart up to:". I thought that a non-zero return code from ...
I need to automate a build process that makes use of an app that initializes Direct3d as part of its initialization - even when it never needs to create a window. I'm trying to automate this task using Windows Task Scheduler (on XP), and I've configured the task scheduler service to allow interaction with the desktop. The problem I'm r...
Hi gurus, I need to run a task every 10 mins from morning 9 AM to Evening 3 PM every weekday on my Windows XP. I have used the following command to do that but on Windows XP SP3 I think /RI option is unavailable. schtasks /Create /RU HS77 /RP /SC DAILY /TN taskname /TR C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe /ST 15:10 /RI 10 /ET 15:31 /K /SD 09/...