Scheduled Tasks

[Gordon]

Help. I've used Scheduled Tasks in Windows2000 before,
mainly to run Visual Basic programs. Now I've created
a .bat file that is supposed to stop an application. The
code inside the .bat file is:

%WINDIR%\System32\tskill.exe outlook

When I run this manually by double clicking the file, it
runs perfectly. However, when I set it up to run as a
scheduled task, it doesn't work. It appears that the task
ran successfully, and the result says 0x0. But the
application doesn't stop.

How can I get this to work in Scheduled Tasks?

Thanks in adv.
Gordon

 

[EEC1 [MSFT]]

When I try this, tskill will terminate the application when called via Task
Scheduler.

What Service Pack version are you running?

Maybe it has something to do with the user account you're running the script
under?

You also might try spawning a new cmd.exe and then running your script. For
example:
start "" cmd.exe /c <full path to your script here>

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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Help. I've used Scheduled Tasks in Windows2000 before,
mainly to run Visual Basic programs. Now I've created
a .bat file that is supposed to stop an application. The
code inside the .bat file is:

%WINDIR%\System32\tskill.exe outlook

When I run this manually by double clicking the file, it
runs perfectly. However, when I set it up to run as a
scheduled task, it doesn't work. It appears that the task
ran successfully, and the result says 0x0. But the
application doesn't stop.

How can I get this to work in Scheduled Tasks?

Thanks in adv.
Gordon

Add some simple diagnostics, then examine the log files:

@echo off
echo %date% %time% Start of task > c:\test.log
echo User=%UserName%, Path=%path% >> c:\test.log
%WINDIR%\System32\tskill.exe outlook 1>>c:\test.log 2>c:\test.err
echo %date% %time% End of task >> c:\test.log