DOS boxes and task Scheduler

[bulek]

Hi,

In cacti installation guide there is a following note:

Note: If you do not want the annoying DOS boxes showing up on your screen, schedule the event using an NT service ID such as "cacti_service". Doing this will remove those messages from your screen during the execution of the scheduled event.

Can anyone elaborate on this? How exactly can I schedule cmd.php using "NT service ID"? I do it on Win2K.

Regards,
- bulek

[raX]

To tell you the truth, I have no idea since I did not write that section of the documentation. It was contributed by another user.

It seems that win32 cacti users have had much better luck with wincron though. You can check out how to set that up here:

http://www.raxnet.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=565

Next time I update the win32 docs, I will make sure to include these wincron instructions.

-Ian

[bulek]

Yea, I saw this hint before however I was looking for something free of charge

Anyway I overcame my problem by using Task Scheduler and nice tool called Hidden (http://www.savardsoftware.com/hidden/). It runs any application with hidden attribute which gives similar result as wincron.

- bulek

[DaemQn]

thanks for the info
its working great for me

[bulek]

You're welcome. This solution has one drawback (but I use it anyway). In task Scheduler you can set a limit for process execution time which can prevent overalping tasks. If you schedule hidden.exe it starts and exits imediatelly. Task Scheduler thinks the process already finished and your php task can work forever.

- bulek