We have a machine running Windows 2000 server. We use the Task Scheduler to
run three different tasks, all asp pages.
The tasks are using the curl.exe to run these pages by passing a URL.
Sometimes the scheduler stops working. The status messages are 'Could not
start'.
This happens maybe on the average once a month.
We have seen this on other machines too, running NT Server, but not asw
often.

It appears to have something to do with curl.exe, because I can always run
the program by using IE

The only way we have found that works is to reboot the machine.

I have searched for info on this paroblem and on curl.exe and not found
anything relevant.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Any help would be appreciated.

Ragnar

Instead of rebooting the machine, try this:

net stop "Task Scheduler"
net start "Task Scheduler"


"Ragnar Midtskogen" <ragnar_ng@optonline.net> wrote in message
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Thanks, I tried that. Tomorrow I will know if it fixed the problem.

Ragnar

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
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If rebooting machine failed to fix the problem then this
method won't fix it either. It's just a way of walking around
the problem.


"Ragnar Midtskogen" <ragnar_ng@optonline.net> wrote in message
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Rebooting always works, but it would be nice to not have to do that.

Unfortunately stopping and restarting the process did not fix the problem.
I am pretty sure we had tried that and found that it did not work.
There is probably one or more other processes that Schedule Task is
dependent on, but I would have no idea which one(s) it could be.
Late tonight I will reboot.

Ragnar