Using wincron to run the cmd.php, far better than task sch.

[khutton]

I have been using task scheduler for awhile with somewhat mixed results. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt. I know why and its a problem that has no real reliable work around. So, I downloaded wincron and have had no problems since I got it running. My instructions are below. (raX, you might want to add this to the win32 instructions as an option)

Download wincron from http://www.wincron.com/download.htm
Just run the install and install it to c:\, it automatically creates c:\wincron
In the c:\wincron\sample scripts directory. I just edited the batch_file_test.tg file to contain this:

{
-name rdd
-start -inc 0 0 5 0
-command php c:\apache\htdocs\cacti\cmd.php
-command exit
}

Run wincron as a service, the wincron website has good instructions on how to do this. Once the service is running, click on the clock in the task bar and "load" the batch_file_test.tg file you edited to contain the above code. Now click the start button and your off and running.

This will make your cmd.php file run every 5 minutes. You can run it at whatever interval you want, but be sure to account for this in your cacti setup. Hope this hels some people with their scheduling problems.

[donmc]

Just for some additional "niceness" see my slightly modified version of a wincron script below, which stops the DOS box from appearing every time it runs...

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##
## run cacti logger
#  Don McC Feb 12th 2003
{ 
-name CACTI  

# Start now and run every 5 minutes
-start -inc 0 0 5 0 

# Run cacti logger 
-command -wait -hide php.exe c:\apache\cacti\cmd.php 
 
}

[jlancaster]

I installed WinCron as a service and the DOS box went away. However, I had to create a user account with the appropriate rights--the system account gave me errors.