Windows Task Scheduler stops fuctioning

[Ragnar Midtskogen]

We have a machine running Windows 2000 server. We use the Task Scheduler to
run three different tasks, all asp pages.
The tasks are using the curl.exe to run these pages by passing a URL.
Sometimes the scheduler stops working. The status messages are 'Could not
start'.
This happens maybe on the average once a month.
We have seen this on other machines too, running NT Server, but not asw
often.

It appears to have something to do with curl.exe, because I can always run
the program by using IE

The only way we have found that works is to reboot the machine.

I have searched for info on this paroblem and on curl.exe and not found
anything relevant.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Any help would be appreciated.

Ragnar

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Instead of rebooting the machine, try this:

net stop "Task Scheduler"
net start "Task Scheduler"

 

[Ragnar Midtskogen]

Thanks, I tried that. Tomorrow I will know if it fixed the problem.

Ragnar

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If rebooting machine failed to fix the problem then this
method won't fix it either. It's just a way of walking around
the problem.

 

[Ragnar Midtskogen]

Rebooting always works, but it would be nice to not have to do that.

Unfortunately stopping and restarting the process did not fix the problem.
I am pretty sure we had tried that and found that it did not work.
There is probably one or more other processes that Schedule Task is
dependent on, but I would have no idea which one(s) it could be.
Late tonight I will reboot.

Ragnar