>>>I'm running a VFP 9 exe as a scheduled service under Windows server 2003. From time to time it just hangs - I can't work out what makes it hang - it never does when I run the exe myself
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>>>Has anyone had a similar experience or know of a scheduler which can be told to hang up if the task is not completed within say 10 minutes
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>>>The task is set to run every 4 minutes and would normally take 1 minute to complete
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>>Hi Colin
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>>you test isn't really valid as I know you have many scheduled jobs running so you can't be sure what else is running when your problem service locks up. So running the exe stand alone is not representative.
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>>You could set you scheduled jobs to check if anything else is still running and if so not start . That would help eliminate any contention between the scheduled jobs as a factor
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>>Nick
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>Thats beside the point -why do scheduled services have problems on windows 2003 server? - as I've since discovered through googling is that it's a common problem with 2003 sp1

Most problems with the scheduler are setup and running the actual scheduler not if individual tasks run our not . But happy googling.