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-Original Message-From: Herold
Heiko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 November
2004 5:40 a.m.To: 'Mike Andersen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:
RE: Newbie needs to start wget in background
This
is not a wget problem.
Your
task scheduler runs wget in foreground, over any console application (the
movie) you are running currently.
THEN
wget immedeatly correctly puts itself in background, the window closes and
your previous topmost application (the movie) is topmost again (although
possibly without keyboard/mouse input focus!).
You
need to investigate how to run wget in a different way. With the old scheduler
(windows NT 4) you could configure the service accordingly, I don't know the
impact of that on the IE5.5/W2K/XP Task Scheduler (which replaced the previous
scheduler).
Heiko
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-Original Message-From: Mike Andersen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004
12:19 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Newbie needs to
start wget in background
Hi,
Can anyone on the list tell me
how to have wget start and run entirely in the background on Windows XP, so
no console window ever opens, not even briefly.
I would like to use wget for
automatically updating files on windows XP client machines, however it needs
to be completely invisible to the user. The client machines will be playing
small movies, which will update from time to time, and wget seems like a
natural solution to have the client machines pull down their own updates. My
strategy so far has been to use Windows Task Scheduler and schedule at
regular intervals a command line call to wget, like this:
C:\WINDOWS\wget.exe -b -q -m -np
-nH -nd -l 1 -Pc:/test http://www.mydomain.com/movies/
&
As you can see, I'm using the -b
(background) and -q (quiet) options, and this *almost* works. A windows console
appears for just a fraction of a second, but it appears on top of the movie
and I know my client will not accept that. I even tried putting the & on
the end of the command, but no dice.
I've also tried using the -o
option, but that didn't help either.
I've looked through the list and
noticed a thread or two about making wget run completely in the background,
but this appears to involve patching wget, and I'm not sure if it works in
windows, and I doubt I have the know-how to patch the application it
correctly. And that's assuming that a version of wget that runs entirely in
the background does actually exist.
I'd really appreciate it if
anyone on the list could help me out with this.
I'm not subscribed to the list,
so please copy me in your responses: [EMAIL PROTECTED].
Many Thanks,
Mike
