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Schedule task with windows php

Hi Everyone,

I am banging my head trying to figure this one out. I have a windows 2000 server running IIS and php4. I have a cmd script pointing to the path of php and then the script. When you click the script it runs fine and send the email. But If I tell scheduled task to run it it does nothing and the scheduler reads 0x0 which is success. But nothing gets ran.

Also what is really wierd is that I can kill all php.exe processes then click run the task and it works. Also as soon as someone accesses any php page from the interenet on this server it starts 5 php.exe processes that don't ever quit.

Can anybody take this info and tell me what is going on here. I think it is a process conflict but I have tried renaming the php.exe and running that in my script instead of the actual php.exe and still no go.

Thanks
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ljubiccica

Hey there...

If it is the script you want to run like a schedule task, here is what i did last week:

I have a task -> IE that openes an url...

If that is what you need, I can see how i put the url in the task and write it...

Greets
Ljubiccica

fixitben

ASKER

That would work too. Can you give me the way you did that.

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ASKER

what does the -e do in the middle?

Thanks
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ljubiccica

It tells which url the IE should open.

Np
Ljubiccica

orbic1

did that work? we use wget (yes - it is available for windows and it works very well!)

Here is a step by step that I found:
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http://docs.openads.org/openads-2.3-guide/maintenance.html

fixitben

ASKER

Thanks that worked great.

The only thing I had to do is set the kill process to like 1 min because it would just start the process and never kill it. But other than that it works great.

Thanks
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