I use the task scheduler method and I am doing exactly as you stated in your post here. I tried and tried to get the cron to run and finally just had to find another way. My cron ran fine when we were serving on Win NT boxes, but, when we moved to 2000, for some reason the cron wouldn't' kick off like it use to.
The task scheduler method isn't the best, but, it opens a browser with a home page that I told it to go to. Off that home page I have a taf that runs. The problem though, was when I needed other tafs to run and of course I only have one browser, so, I did the next best thing and just put branch's to the other taf's. I admin, a very unconventional way of going about things, but, it does what my cron use to do. I do wish there was another way. Steve Campbell -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk Subject: Witango-Talk: cron help or task scheduler I have been banging my head against the old crontab issue. One reason I'm looking at crontab again is because the way our NT Admin has set up task scheduler causes a browser window to open on the server when it runs my taf files. So if there is way to use the Task Scheduler to run a taf with out opening a browser window, great! In the meantime, here is the output from my tango.log 03/10/2002 21:28:46 0 [Cron] Sent http://localhost:80/cronmail.taf and here is my textcron.txt # Run this application file all the time (every minute) * * * * * http://localhost/cronmail.taf My test is a simple taf that just sends an email. It is triggering the cron file every minute, but the taf is not getting executed. Do I need the t4cgi.exe? I tried that: http://localhost/scripts/t4cgi.ext but IIS can't find scripts directory because it is not in the web root. I moved it to the web root. No luck. The manual was not clear on the cgi piece either. I have tried every combination of ip/localhost/127.0.0.1 and the taf fails to execute. The server parses the crontab file on startup: [2752] Parsed 1 entries in crontab C:\Inetpub\scripts\testcron.txt I have looked through all the past posts, and I seem to be doing everything correctly. I have tried with a blank line at the end of the txt file, and no blank line with a carraige return at the end of the cron task. Any advice would be most appreciated. John Newsom > If you have two WiTango server processes running on the same machine how do > you purge all of them in one go? > > Also, how do you monitor server status at a per-process level in a > multi-process environment? > > - James. > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
