How do I allow my Matlab script to pass back a return code to the Task Scheduler? I currently have a task that runs "matlab -r myscript". The problem is the Task Scheduler always succeeds immediately after starting, even though myscript takes several minutes to run. So, I don't see how to pass back an error code.
How can I make Task Scheduler wait until the script stops running and then get matlab to pass back a return code?
Use the matlab -wait command line option to have it block until the program is finished.
There appears to be an undocumented argument to quit() to set the exit status - e.g. quit(42) - which then shows up in %ERRORLEVEL%. Since it's undocumented, you might not want to rely on it. Alternatively, have your script write its status to a file and have a wrapper script parse it.
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I have a job scheduled to run at 9:30 every day using Windows task scheduler. The problem is after it runs, the command prompt stays open. Does anyone know how to get it to close?
The full text in the "Add arguments (optional):" field is:
C:\WinPython64bit\notebooks\TreasuryTest.py exit 0
I have searched all over, but most fixes are for use directly in the command prompt, and it seems to function differently from the task scheduler.
I currenty have a simple shell script that I created for a linux machine to be run using cron, but now I want to be able to run the file using windows task scheduler. I have tried to get it to work using cron for cygwin, but even after running cron-config successfully and ensuring that the shell script can be executed successfully, for some reason the cron task simply wasn't executing. So I decided to give in and use the windows task scheduler. In order to do this, I looked at the following posts about the issue:
Cgywin .sh file run as Windows Task Scheduler
http://www.davidjnice.com/cygwin_scheduled_tasks.html
in my case, the entry in the "actions" tab of the new task looks like this:
program/script: c:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe
arguments: -l -c "/cygdrive/c/users/paul/bitcoinbot/download_all_data.sh >> cygdrive/c/users/paul/bitcoinbot/logfile.log 2>&1"
start in: c:\cygwin64\bin
Notice that I redirected the output of the shell script to a log file, so that I should be able to see there whether the program run. Other than that, I simply edited the "trigger" tab to run the task daily, and set the time to a couple of minutes in the fture to see whether it ran successfully.
Alas, when I look at the detailed event history for the task, nothing changes when the trigger time passes. And when I manually "run" the task, the event history seems to add a few different events, but the task is completed within seconds, whereas this task should take over an hour (and it does when the shell script is executed directly from the terminal). And when I look for the log file that should have been created, there is nothing.
Does anyone have any idea what might be the issue here? How can I get my task to run properly at the trigger time, and how can I make sure it does so?
Best,
Paul
EDIT:
here are the pictures showing event history, as per Ken White's request.
Please ignore the fact that it says there are 24 events. These are from multiple separate runs of the task. The events shown here are a complete list of the events triggered by a single run.
EDIT 2:
Regarding my attempts to get cron to work, I have run into the following problem when I try to start the cron service using cygrunsrv. First of all, I tried to start cron by typing
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron.exe -a -D
Now when I type
$cygrunsrv -Q cron
Service: cron
Current State: stopped
Command: /usr/bin/cron.exe
Now, I tried to start the cron service by typing
cygrunsrv -S cron
Cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062:
The service has not been started.
Does anyone hae any idea what this error means? I tried googling it, but couldn't find any answers.
I have scheduled a task in windows server 2008R2 ..I want to run a VBScript so when I setup the task I call the cscript at C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe and in the arguments section I am passing //nologo //B d:\main\programs\copy.vbs /targets:contents but it is not executing my script ..If I call my script directly in the start program section it works fine but it's not working if I call CSrcipt and pass in arguments the status changes to queued but nothing happens after that..Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here.
Also another question I have is that can we run 2 programs one after another in one task like when one script is finished I would like to start another script .
Thanks
Put this line at the top of your script and try again:
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").LogEvent 4, "Script running"
Unless you get an Information event with source WSH and event-ID 4, your script isn't running at all. Check the eventlog and the task's History tab for clues as to why that is. Also check the permissions of the script. Is the runas account of the task able to access/run the file? You can check that by starting a CMD instance as that user
runas /user:DOM\USER cmd
and then trying to run the script in that CMD instance.
Also double-check the task settings. As which user is it configured to run? With the user logged on or not logged on? Is "Run with highest privileges" enabled (in case UAC is enabled on your server)?
If the script does produce the abovementioned event that means it's running in principle, but something is going wrong in the process. You need to debug your script.
I have the current scenario to deal with:
I have to schedule the backup of my company's Linux-based server (under Suse Linux) with ARCServe R15 (installed on Windows 2003R2SP2).
I know I have the ability in my backup software (ARCServe) to add pre/post execution scripts to my backup-jobs.
If failure of the script, ARCServe would be specified NOT to run the backup-job, and if success, specified to be run. I have no problem with this.
The problem is, I want to make a windows script (to be launched by ARCServe) for executing a Linux script on the cluster:
- If this Linux-script fails, I want my windows-script to fail, so my backup job in ARCServe wouldn't run
- If the Linux-script success, I want my windows-script to end normally with error code 0, so my ARCServe job would run normally.
I've tried creating this batch file (let's call it HPC.bat):
echo ON
start /wait "C:\Program Files\PUTTY\plink.exe" -v -l root -i "C:\IST\admin\scripts\HPC\pri.ppk" [cluster_name] /appli/admin/backup_admin
exit %errorlevel%
If I manually launch this .bat by double-clicking on it, or launching it in a command prompt under Windows, it executes normally and then ends.
If I make it being launched by ARCServe, the script seems never to end.
My job stays in "waiting" status, it seems the execution code of the linux script isn't returned to my batch file, and this one doesn't close.
In my mind, what's happening is plink just opens the connection to the Linux, send the sript execution signal, and then close the connection, so the execution code can't be returned to the batch. Am I right ?
Is what I want to do possible or am I trying something impossible to do ?
So, do I have to proceed differently ?
Do I have to use PUTTY or CygWin instead of plink ?
Please, it's giving me headaches ...
If you install Cygwin, you could do it exactly like you can do it on Linux to Linux, i.e. remotely run a command with ssh someuser#remoteserver.com somecommand
This command will return with the same return code on the calling client, as the command exited with on the remote end. If you use SSH shared keys for authentication instead of passwords, it can also be scripted without user interaction.
I am using bash on Ubuntu. I would like to have a shell script open a program and continue on to the next line of the shell script, even though the program has not terminated.
Adding an & to a command places it in background.
example:
/path/to/foo
/path/to/bar # not executed untill foo is done
/path/to/foo & # in background
/path/to/bar & # executes as soon as foo is started
Read more about job-control here and here
Use something like this (my-long-running-process &) . This will launch your script as a separate process in the background.
You must run the process in the background, but you must enable job-control first. Otherwise, you cannot kill or bring the process to foreground if desired.
To enable job-control, execute:
set -m
To run some task in the background, execute:
task &
To manipulate the background task, use the jobspec syntax (%[n]). For example, to kill the last launched process, execute:
kill %
Note that enabling job-control is required only if you're actually running a script (as stated in the question). If running interactively, job-control is already enabled by default.
The manpage for bash has much more information in the JOB CONTROL section.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1657602
It looks like all you have to do is add a & at the end of the line.