Task scheduler problem

pierznj · 06-29-2009, 08:19 PM

I've written a console app that indexes my website for searching, and now I want it to run automatically every night. When I run it manually, it works beautifully. But when I schedule it with Task Scheduler, it does nothing. OK, so the first thing you are thinking is I'm running it with insufficient privileges. Not as far as I can tell. It's set up to run as administrator, with maximum privileges, whether or not I'm logged in, password stored. The odd thing is, when I run the task, the status says "running" for what appears to be approximately the correct amount of time for the indexer to complete its job. But there is no output to my log file, and no indexes are created. That's weird, since if it is not able to write to the index/log files, I'd expect an I/O error and a failure message. Also odd: I created a batch file to run the app, and tried setting up the task scheduler to run that. When it runs it tells me it completed with error code 0, although it finishes instantly and again, of course, nothing happens.

Ideas anyone? It's driving me crazy.

pierznj · 06-29-2009, 08:38 PM

Fixed it. It needed to be told where to run from ... the supposedly optional option when you choose the path to the program to run.

06-29-2009, 08:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
pierznj Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windos Server 2008	Task scheduler problem I've written a console app that indexes my website for searching, and now I want it to run automatically every night. When I run it manually, it works beautifully. But when I schedule it with Task Scheduler, it does nothing. OK, so the first thing you are thinking is I'm running it with insufficient privileges. Not as far as I can tell. It's set up to run as administrator, with maximum privileges, whether or not I'm logged in, password stored. The odd thing is, when I run the task, the status says "running" for what appears to be approximately the correct amount of time for the indexer to complete its job. But there is no output to my log file, and no indexes are created. That's weird, since if it is not able to write to the index/log files, I'd expect an I/O error and a failure message. Also odd: I created a batch file to run the app, and tried setting up the task scheduler to run that. When it runs it tells me it completed with error code 0, although it finishes instantly and again, of course, nothing happens. Ideas anyone? It's driving me crazy.

06-29-2009, 08:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
pierznj Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windos Server 2008	Re: Task scheduler problem Fixed it. It needed to be told where to run from ... the supposedly optional option when you choose the path to the program to run.