I've started using Doxygen to document my team's project source code (we have C#, Objective-C, and Android/Java projects). I wrote up a Windows batch script which checks out the latest trunk versions of each project and uses the command-line Doxygen to generate HTML documentation sites and publish to a directory on the local file system which IIS 7 already hosts. This batch script works perfectly and does everything it needs to, though it takes 10 - 20 minutes to run completely.
Now I'm trying to automate the process so that it will run at the end of every day. I added a scheduled task which simply runs the batch script. Every part of the script seems to work except for the Doxygen part. I can log into the machine and watch the file system and see that working copies are being checked out with no problem and the cleanup stuff works. However it never generates the Doxygen HTML output. The output/target directories Doxygen is configured to use will stay empty every time. I'm finding no error messages of any kind (in Scheduled Tasks and eventvwr). It doesn't work whether I let the task scheduler start it on its own or I tell it to run the task now. As said earlier, I can double-click the batch file and run it normally and everything works fine that way.
The process is done on our development server, it's an older Dell workstation running Windows Vista Business 32-bit. I have the scheduled task running on the "System" account though I have also tried "Local Service" and my own Active Directory domain account (which is an administrator on this server) and it still doesn't work.
Has anyone else successfully used the task scheduler to automate Doxygen? I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. What should I look for next?
I can post slightly anonymized versions of my batch file and Doxygen config files if necessary.
In your batch file, try adding redirection of the doxygen output to a log file. Then run it through the scheduler and see what output was generated. If doxygen encounters an error when run that way you should see it in the log file.
doxygen doxyfile > doxygen.log 2>&1
Also make sure that your bat file runs correctly, even if invoked from another directory than the one where the doxygen stuff resides. When run through the task scheduler, I think that the current directory will be c:\windows\system32, so try this:
c:\windows\system32>c:\path\to\batchfile\mybatch.bat
If that gives path errors you have to fix them.
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I have a simple Django code which I want to keep running on a specific GCE instance. Sometimes the instance gets restarted due to some reasons, not in my control. I created a batch script which I tried to put in Startup folder in both users and common folder. It didn't work. I tried putting the script in using sysprep-specialize-script-url(using cloud storage), sysprep-specialize-script-cmd and sysprep-specialize-script-bat. It didn't work. Here's the content of the batch script -
cd C:\Users\kartik_domadiya\Desktop\happierMiscGoogleCloud
manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80
pause
I tried running C:\Program Files\Google\Compute Engine\metadata_scripts\run_startup_scripts.cmd manually and it worked (with any metadata key). So I can see that there's no problem with the script itself.
I even tried with putting the batch script in task scheduler which didn't work too.
So is there any way I can debug the problem and find out why isn't the batch script working? I am using Windows 2012 R2, if that matters.
PS: I know that's a development server and should not be used in production.
I moved the code to C:/code (basically out of any particular user's folder) and then provided all user its access (Right Click > Properties > Security), updated the batch file and put it into startup folder (Run > shell:startup).
It started working after that. I suppose the issue was due to access permission.
I am currently working on a Windows batch file that will allow me to silently install git (the executable for which will be placed in the folder that the .bat file will be running from) in a pre-specified location on the file system.
I've found this article which seems to provide some suitable advice:
https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Silent-or-Unattended-Installation
However, I'm not entirely sure what parameters I would need to mention in my LOADINF file. I would like to pre-define the options that the user would manually select throughout the various stages of installation, so that it can run through from start to finish without prompting anything from the user.
Can anyone help or point me to a place where I can find these parameters and their available values?
Create a file, for eg. my-config.cnf (or my-config.ini) with the following content:
[Setup]
Lang=default
Dir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Git
Group=Git
NoIcons=0
SetupType=default
...
<other options as shown in the msysgit wiki>
Now, in the batch file, when you execute the installation file (say msysgit-install.exe), use /LOADINF as follows:
msysgit-install.exe /SILENT /LOADINF="my-config.cnf"
I have a question and wondering if you guys could help.. Here are the details -
Program Flow ->
Autosys Job -> Windows .bat job on network path-> Internally calls java program along with few other components
When the .bat runs through Autosys job, it gives below warning and does partial processing and exits out without any failure
(i guess the internal code might not have good error handling..but sadly I do not have access to view/modify the same). However, when I logon to that
windows box and run the .bat file from cmd prompt, it works like a charm and throws no error.
Warning in Logs - "WARNING: Failed to load the sqljdbc_auth.dll"
Things I tried-
I tried creating a wrapper bat file in windows C drive (not the netwrok path where the actual .bat is in) and placed sqljdbc_auth.dll in that custom folder.
Job went to SU , after partial processing.
Appreciate your help.
Many Thanks,
Raj
I'd suspect there is a path error. Try echo %path% just before calling your batch, even simply run
echo %path%>alogfile
call yourbatch
and if the displayed path doesn't include a directory in which your .dll resides, add it into the path before calling yourbatch.
It may very well be that your logon includes the required directory as part of your user-defined path and the username under which the job runs does not include the directory.
Or, you could try moving the dll into somewhere like system32 which should be common to everyone.
(Windows should use the standard path-scanning algorithm to locate any required dll that isn't invoked from a full pathname)
I have created jekyll site. Regarding the deployment I don't want to host on github pages. To host private domain I came know from documentation to copy the all files from _site folder. That's all wicked.
Question:
Each time I add new blog post, I am running cmd>jekyll build then I am copying newly created html to hosted domain. Is there any easy way to update without compiling each time ?
The reason, Why I am asking is because it will updated by non technical person
Thanks for the help!!
If you don't want to use GitHub Pages, AFAIK there's no other way than to compile your site each time you make a change.
But of course you can script/automate as much as possible.
That's what I do with my own blog as well. I'm hosting it on my own webspace instead of GitHub Pages, so I need to do these steps for each update:
Compile on local machine
Upload via FTP
I can do this with a single click (okay, a single double-click).
Note: I'm on Windows, so the following solution is for Windows.
But if you're using Linux/MacOS/whatever, of course you can use the tools given there to build something similar.
I'm using a batch file (the Windows equivalent to a shell script) to compile my site and then call WinSCP, a free command-line FTP client.
WinSCP allows me to store session configurations, so I saved the connection to my server there once.
Because of this, I didn't want to commit WinSCP to my (public) repository, so my script expects WinSCP in the parent folder.
The batch file looks like this:
call jekyll build
echo If the build succeeded, press RETURN to upload!
pause
set uploadpath=%~dp0\_site
%~dp0\..\winscp.com /script=build-upload.txt /xmllog=build-upload.log
pause
The first parameter in the WinSCP call (/script=build-upload.txt) specifies the script file which contains the actual WinSCP commands
This is in the script file:
option batch abort
option confirm off
open blog
synchronize remote -delete "%uploadpath%"
close
exit
Some explanations:
%~dp0 (in the batch file) is the folder where the current batch file is
The set uploadpath=... line (in the batch file) saves the complete path to the generated site into an environment variable
The open blog line (in the script file) opens a connection to the pre-saved session configuration (which I named blog)
The synchronize remote ... line (in the script file) uses the synchronize command to sync from the local folder (saved in %uploadpath%, the environment variable from step 2) to the server.
IMO this solution is suitable for non-technical persons as well.
If the technical person in your case doesn't know how to use source control, you could even script committing & pushing, too.
There are a number of options available which are mentioned in the documentation: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/deployment-methods/
If you are using Git, I would recommend the Git Post-Receive Hook approach. It simply builds the site after the new code is received:
GIT_REPO=$HOME/myrepo.git
TMP_GIT_CLONE=$HOME/tmp/myrepo
PUBLIC_WWW=/var/www/myrepo
git clone $GIT_REPO $TMP_GIT_CLONE
jekyll build -s $TMP_GIT_CLONE -d $PUBLIC_WWW
rm -Rf $TMP_GIT_CLONE
exit
Since you mentioned that it will be updated by a non-technical person, you might try something like rack-jekyll to automatically rebuild when new files are FTP'd.
I'm using Windows Server 2003 to try and execute a PHP script every day at 9AM. Here's the command inside of run:
"C:\Program Files\Zend\ZendServer\bin\php.exe" C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\signout\teachernotify.php
It's supposed to execute the PHP script above which is supposed to e-mail me, but it doesn't work. Accessing the script above through a browser works, but not through Scheduled Tasks.
When I run it through the task scheduler, it goes through like something happened, but it doesn't appear to work.
Any advice?
Thanks
It sounds like it could be a permissions problem. When run through Apache via a web browser, the permissions would be based on whatever permissions Apache is running under. As a scheduled task, the permissions are based on the user specified for the task.
Make sure that the user specified in the "Run as" field in the task settings dialog has permissions to send an email.
Based on your most recent comment, it seems the problem is that the filename needs double quotes around it. I failed to notice that in the original question.
"C:\Program Files\Zend\ZendServer\bin\php.exe" "C:\Program Files\Zend\Apache2\htdocs\signout\teachernotify.php"