Automatic Restart on NT 4.0

[hceonetman]

I have the NTReskit installed and am trying to do an automatic restart during off hours. Win NT scheduler is running as a service. On the same server I wish to restart, I click 'My Computer' and select 'Scheduled Tasks'. I click to add a new task and enter:
&quot;C:\NTReskit\Shutdown.exe \\<Servername> /R /C /T:1 /Y&quot;.
I schedule this for 6:00 a.m the next day as a one-time event. The system lists this as a scheduled event. The next morning I can see the server has not shut down but I don't see any error msg. The task is still in the scheduler, but 'next run time' is listed as 'Never'. I expect I'd have to be here to watch it try to execute to see any error - then my luck would be that it would work and I'd disconnect everyone.
If I remember right, the above parameters are '/R' for restart, '/T:1' tells it to execute in one second, and '/Y' is to confirm the restart. I don't remember where I got the /C.
Besides not wanting to come in at 6:00 a.m., what am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any and all help,
HCEONETMAN

 

[sobak]

I had the same problem with the NTReskit shutdown.exe file so I went out to the web and found another one. I don't know why but I scheduled the event and it worked fine.

I'm sure you've checked this but are you sure the scheduler service is running as well (I know it's a stupid question but if I didn't ask you someone else would have)? Just trying to help you out....

david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*

 

[hceonetman]

Thanks, Sobak. No, there are no stupid questions, but yes, the scheduler service is running. We do a weekly update to some other servers that runs automatically each Sunday, so I know it works. I just tried Shutdown on a different NT server, but instead of \\servername, I used the /L (local machine) parameter and it worked from a command line. I then succeeded in doing it from scheduler. The parameters may have been the problem. I'll know for sure on Monday.
HCEONETMAN

 

[sobak]

Cool, that may have been my problem as well, I was attempting to do it the same way that you did. I think the program I downloaded would only reboot the local server so it didn't require any switches, just scheduled it to run at 3:00am and haven't touched it yet....I'll be able to use this information in the future...

david e
*end users are just like computers, some you can work with...others just need a simple reBOOTing to fix their problems.*