AT Scheduler

[shrinika]

Tim, I understand that, this is not a right forum to submit. I appologies. I do want to submit windows jobs in windows XP.. How do i use AT scheduler to schedule the job. I googled the AT scheduler and i am not finding any proper info. Here i do not want to submit the job by using windows scheduler due to some privileges issue. Please let me know if have any info...

Regards
Shrinika

[Tim...]

Hi.

If you type "AT /?" at the command prompts you should get the usage like this:

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AT [\\computername] [ [id] [/DELETE] | /DELETE [/YES]]
AT [\\computername] time [/INTERACTIVE]
    [ /EVERY:date[,...] | /NEXT:date[,...]] "command"

\\computername     Specifies a remote computer. Commands are scheduled on the
                   local computer if this parameter is omitted.
id                 Is an identification number assigned to a scheduled
                   command.
/delete            Cancels a scheduled command. If id is omitted, all the
                   scheduled commands on the computer are canceled.
/yes               Used with cancel all jobs command when no further
                   confirmation is desired.
time               Specifies the time when command is to run.
/interactive       Allows the job to interact with the desktop of the user
                   who is logged on at the time the job runs.
/every:date[,...]  Runs the command on each specified day(s) of the week or
                   month. If date is omitted, the current day of the month
                   is assumed.
/next:date[,...]   Runs the specified command on the next occurrence of the
                   day (for example, next Thursday).  If date is omitted, the
                   current day of the month is assumed.
"command"          Is the Windows NT command, or batch program to be run.

The first example schedules a job which runs the c:\jobs\MyJob.bat script at 9:00 pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurdays and Fridays. The second example schedules a job that runs the script at 6:00 am on the next 20th of the month.

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C:> at 21:00 /every:m,t,th,f "c:\jobs\MyJob.bat"
Added a new job with job ID = 1

C:> at 6:00 /next:20 "c:\jobs\MyJob.bat"
Added a new job with job ID = 2

The current list of jobs can be displayed by issuing the at command with no parameters:

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C:\>at
Status ID   Day                     Time          Command Line
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        1   Each M T Th F           21:00 PM      c:\jobs\MyJob.bat
        2   Next 20                 06:00 AM      c:\jobs\MyJob.bat

C:\>

Jobs can be deleted using the /delete option like:

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C:\>at 1 /delete

C:\>at 2 /delete

C:\>at
There are no entries in the list.

C:\>

That is about all I know about AT.

Oh, but the way, you need to make sure the service is on.

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

[shrinika]

Tim, Thank you!!!. Your answer is very detail and helpful. I highly appreciate your answer.

[Tim...]