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i am trying to run a batch job in task scheduler, but when i run as me
i get operational code 2.
running the batch file in cmd is fine.
so it must be privileges?
and yet if i try to run ad administator ( with my machine name prefix and slash )
i have to have a password.
this machine was setup for me, and i do not know how to continue.
assist / suggestins?
the task scheduler allows for browsing to the bat file, so i don't know why opcode 2 would be given for it.
the bat file looks like this
cd/
cd/xampp
cd php
php \xampp\htdocs\iwp2\v3\cron.php
cd/
cd/users/ed/desktop
echo %ERRORLEVEL% >cronjob-output.txt
echo %time% >>cronjob-output.txt
is there something obvious for you here?
In this post...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/576810/scheduled-tasks-start-6-hours-late.html
...refer to my "Oct 04 2021 at 7:46 PM" answer where it describes how to configure the task to capture stdout and stderr so that you can review the log file for output and errors. Use your file and folder names obviously.
i used to run korn, bourne and cshell scripts no problem.
but this simple exercise is no fun.
i believe i can make it work but as administrator, since when i did that i saw at least an opcode of 1 and not 2.
so now my question is how do i run this little tiny time consuming two line as administrator,
when when asked i have no idea what the password is?
Configure the task to run as your account. Configure it to capture stdout and stderr. Thats the '1>" and "2>" on the command line parameters.
cmd.exe /c c:\YourFolderName\YourScriptName.bat 1> c:\YourLogFileFolder\YourScriptName.log 2>&1
Here I have my cleanup task defined to do that. In my case I want to have a separate log file for each execution, so I use date/time as part of the name. You don't have to do that, just use a log file name like C:\Logs\MyTask.log.
i created a new task to run the bat file cron_job_for_iwp.bat
the action is
cmd.exe and its arguments ( in the separate area for arguments,
not sure if i should have said yes or no when asked about them)
/c C:\Users\Ed\Desktop\cron_job_for_iwp.bat 1> C:\Users\Ed\Desktop\logs\cronjoblogs.txt 2>&1
cron_job_for_iwp.bat file has in it:
c:\xampp\php\php.exe c:\xampp\htdocs\iwp2\v3\cron.php
the output file was
C:\WINDOWS\system32>þc
'þc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
i feel i am halfway there. lol.
Open the bat file with notepad and do a file saveas and save it as plain old ascii. You've got it in some other encoding. That's what those first 2 characters indicate..