Re: TaskScheduler and Win32::OLE

2010-04-03 Thread Marcial Borde
http://search.cpan.org/~UNICOLET/Win32-TaskScheduler2.0.3/TaskScheduler.pm http://taskscheduler.sourceforge.net/ El 02/04/2010 11:05 p.m., Brzezinski, Paul J escribió: I'm trying to use Win32::OLE to access the TaskScheduler [on Win2K3]. I would like to get all the configured tasks, finding

Re: alarm

2010-04-03 Thread Bill Birthisel
One big reason why it doesn't work: THANKS $MICROSOFT. In the early days of NT, they decided to only permit system calls and drivers to interrupt system calls so that a user process could no longer crash the system (think Windows 3.x). So it has never been possible to implement 'alarm' unless the

RE: alarm

2010-04-03 Thread Paul Rogers
-Original Message- From: Bill Birthisel [mailto:bbirthi...@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:42 AM To: Paul Rogers Cc: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Re: alarm One big reason why it doesn't work: THANKS $MICROSOFT. In the early days of NT, they

RE: TaskScheduler and Win32::OLE

2010-04-03 Thread Brzezinski, Paul J
I should have stated that I did first try to download this module - it's missing from the Activestate repository. So I downloaded the source and attempted to compile and it's _broken_. It hasn't been updated in several years and according to the CPAN testers site this module fails to compile

RE: TaskScheduler and Win32::OLE

2010-04-03 Thread Brzezinski, Paul J
Respectively, XML might be an option for Vista and above, but I'm talking about W2K3 server. Yes, I should have stated I looked at the WMI method and dismissed that because it only gets the tasks added to the system via the AT command. The OLE objects are different between W2K3/XP and older

RE: TaskScheduler and Win32::OLE

2010-04-03 Thread Howard Tanner
Sorry, I don't have a Windows 2003 Server to test this on. However, I do have an XP virtual machine, and schtasks is indeed available, although the /XML option is not. So if XML isn't available on Win2K3, use a different format, like CSV. From:

Re: TaskScheduler and Win32::OLE

2010-04-03 Thread Justin Allegakoen
On 3 April 2010 22:21, Brzezinski, Paul J paul.brzezin...@hp.com wrote: I should have stated that I did first try to download this module – it’s missing from the Activestate repository.  So I downloaded the source and attempted to compile and it’s _broken_.  It hasn’t been updated in several