Chron job on server

A client has asked us to write an app that will run as a timed job on a Windows
200 Server, using Windows ability to schedule the process to run at timed
intervals.

Is there anything special I need to know about

1. Installing a vfp app on a Windows server

2. Rights and other considerations for the job to run

Thanks in advance.

Josh Rubin

Leemi
Thu Sep 16 10:03:09 CDT 2004

Hi Josh:

Since the app is going to run from the server, you need to place the VFP
runtime files on the server. You did not say what version of VFP you are
using, but here is a link with runtime files needed for VFP 7.0 and 8.0:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPRuntimeFiles~VFP

Log on as administrator when you install the executable. Make sure that the
account the executable runs under has rights to create and delete the VFP
temp file.

I hope this helps.

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Sincerely,
Microsoft FoxPro Technical Support
Lee Mitchell

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>A client has asked us to write an app that will run as a timed job on a
Windows
>200 Server, using Windows ability to schedule the process to run at timed
>intervals.

>Is there anything special I need to know about

>1. Installing a vfp app on a Windows server

>2. Rights and other considerations for the job to run

>Thanks in advance.

>Josh Rubin

Andrew
Tue Sep 21 03:42:06 CDT 2004

RandPinc wrote:
> A client has asked us to write an app that will run as a timed job on
> a Windows 200 Server, using Windows ability to schedule the process
> to run at timed intervals.
>
> Is there anything special I need to know about
>
> 1. Installing a vfp app on a Windows server
>
> 2. Rights and other considerations for the job to run

If you want the thing to show any display (ie not run completely "silently")
then you must run the job as a local administrator. We run schedule jobs and
I typically show a window for about 5 seconds at the beginning saying "Click
this button for manual run!" When we shifted it to a 2K machine the Foxpro
window never showed although the job ran OK.

Eventually I learnt that the job must be run by a member of the
administrators group otherwise it runs "silently".

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HTH
Andrew Howell