Vista Task Scheduler can't run OK *.BAT file

[Guest]

Pretty straight up situation.

I have a batch file:

"C:\TclStuff\Batch Files\PlaySomething.bat" Annie

This runs on a command line just fine. It won't run from the Task Scheduler:

Task Scheduler failed to start instance
"{DA573AEA-805C-4477-8152-53B595EF95C9}" of "\Wake for Annie" task for user
"a-PC\Ron A. Zajac" . Additional Data: Error Value: 2147942667.

What gives?

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Ron

In the Task Scheduler for this task, do you have the "Run with highest
privileges" option enabled in the General Tab?

 

[Guest]

Ronnie,

Thanks for the suggestion.

No, this option wasn't enabled. I enabled it, then issued a "Run" order
again to test it. It didn't work. Here's the formatted ("friendly") Details
ouput:

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler
[ Guid] {de7b24ea-73c8-4a09-985d-5bdadcfa9017}

EventID 203

Version 0

Level 2

Task 203

Opcode 101

Keywords 0x8000000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2007-07-16T10:56:30.270Z

EventRecordID 2891

- Correlation

[ ActivityID] {E60BD601-7B36-4973-9586-316BC088C6A9}

- Execution

[ ProcessID] 4916
[ ThreadID] 7592

Channel Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational

Computer a-PC

- Security

[ UserID] S-1-5-21-1865275644-502863341-2745678560-1001


- EventData

TaskName \Wake for Annie
TaskInstanceId {E60BD601-7B36-4973-9586-316BC088C6A9}
ActionName C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe
ResultCode 2147942667


I could mention the fact that the *.BAT has a header that runs another
interpreter (tclsh). However, I feel this is likely a non-issue; if I can
run it from a command line, why shouldn't the Scheduler be able to run it?
On the off-chance it had something to do with the $path$, I quickly modified
that header to invoke the tclsh using the full path (c:\Tcl\bin\tclsh); no
dice.

Again, thanks for your kind ministrations! If another angle occurs to
you, please keep me posted!

-raz (Ron A. Zajac)

 

[Jimmy Brush]

TaskName \Wake for Annie
TaskInstanceId {E60BD601-7B36-4973-9586-316BC088C6A9}
ActionName C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\cmd.exe
ResultCode 2147942667

</snip>

Hello,

If it helps at all, that result code translates into this Win32 error code:

Error # 267 (ERROR_DIRECTORY)
The directory name is invalid.

- JB

 

[Guest]

Jimmy,

I guess that tell me something: You're saying that the cmd.exe is
returning that error code? It still raises the question: Why would the
manual run of the script go OK, whereas running it under the auspices of the
Task Scheduler results in some kind of a directory path-related offense
against the cmd.exe? Shouldn't the Task Scheduler--running "as" me--have the
same environment as I do?

Oh: And a sincere thanks for your interest!

-raz

 

[Jimmy Brush]

Jimmy,

I guess that tell me something: You're saying that the cmd.exe is
returning that error code? It still raises the question: Why would the
manual run of the script go OK, whereas running it under the auspices of the
Task Scheduler results in some kind of a directory path-related offense
against the cmd.exe? Shouldn't the Task Scheduler--running "as" me--have the
same environment as I do?

Oh: And a sincere thanks for your interest!

I'm not really sure.

Is your account an administrator account, or do you run as a standard
user and elevate to a seperate admin account?

Can you export your task to an xml file and then post the contents of
that file so we can have a look?

- JB

 

[hexago]

</snip>

Hello,

If it helps at all, that result code translates into this Win32errorcode:

Error# 267 (ERROR_DIRECTORY)
The directory name is invalid.

- JB

I had the same problem. I had to remove the quotation marks in the
Start in field.

Changed from "C.\Program Files\" to C.\Program Files\