I have read a dozen articles on here, and tried over 50 different syntax variations in task scheduler, and bat files with several different syntax variations, and it still will not work. All of the articles' answers fail, along with everything else I have tried.
Here's the task: Monday through Friday at 4:55 AM, launch a browser and navigate without user interaction to westcoastswing.radio.net. It doesn't matter which browser. Task must run Monday through Friday only. Task must run whether anyone is logged in or not, and must wake the computer to run the task. Monday through Friday at 6:15 AM, kill the browser.
Updating to a newer version of Windows is not an option at this time. A third party product is only an option once it's determined that Microsoft is deliberately blocking this functionality. Using Windows Media Player and a specialized URL found via F12 might be an option, but I have spent an even greater amount of time trying to get that strategy to work, without success.
Thanks for any help or advice. Please don't mark this as a duplicate, I have tried the existing similar articles and their solutions do not work.
Found a method that works, but only because I use MSIE only for this and nothing else.
Specify full path to IE, in quotes, in start program.
Specify URL, not in quotes, in optional arguments.
Highest possible permission.
Don't run "hidden".
I don't know why that worked, or why out of all the combinations I tried before I didn't hit on that exact one, but sorry for posting a pointless question.
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I want to do a Jira issue query, but I dont know if it is possible.
I am looking at how many of our bugs have been re-opened ever. So they were worked on, closed, re-opened, and then fixed and closed again. Its a measure of how well bugs are fixed.
That query uses:
AND status was Reopened
However, we have a behaviour where we close an issue, realise that the issue needs editing, so re-open the issue to change the resolution for example, and then close it again.
I think the best way of doing this is to search for something like
'AND status was Reopened for more than 3 hours'
Is there anything like that? The data is there in the history, it is just a matter of weather we can query it or not.
There's no way to write a JQL for issues which were in a status for a given amount of time. JQL only supports searching the time an issue has been in a status relative to a date. If you are using Jira Service Desk, the usual workaround for something like this is to create an SLA for 3 hours which is triggered when the issue moves into the Reopened status, and then query for this SLA being breached.
Otherwise, there are add-ons for adding this functionality to JQL. Or add-ons for creating automations which could set a flag that you could query. Automation for Jira and Scriptrunner are popular plugins that could pull this off, and soon Automation for Jira will be built into Jira Cloud.
We recently added "Publish To Apple News" plug-in to our Word Press and getting "Date_Not_Recent" error. After talking to the developers and checking their support pages, it looks like it is a a time zone issue between the WP server (Oregon, US with UTC timezone) and Apple News Publisher (which till this moment Apple can't tell me where it is located, i assume California, but who knows for sure?)
Solution, is to sync those time zones together. My questions:
1- Anyone had any issues rezoning their aws servers?
2- If you had this issue before, what did you do?
I am just trying not fix one thing and break 10 other things in return. just being cautions. We all know that Murphy's law roles in IT.
Thanks in advance
We figured it out. it was an NTP issue.
We host on AWS, and the time sync packages (NTP) were a little bit out of sync, so we deleted them and installed chrony instead and that worked.
For anyone who is interested, here are the instructions (under configuring the Amazon time sync services):
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/set-time.html
I've figured out how to run guard on my ubuntu desktop to use while doing Ruby on Rails development. The notifications are quite useful, but lag forever behind guard, so if I run a test, I'll wait for two minutes afterward waiting for the notifications to catch up to the end.
It's not absolutely necessary, but rather annoying and would be even more useful if they could only display the final test results (for example, "20 examples, 2 failures") instead of the results of each individual test.
Is there any way to accomplish this?
I had the same issue. Here is the solution:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/128474/how-to-customize-on-screen-notifications
They say there is no official way to configure notification but there is an unofficial patch allowing to configure it widely. There you can reduce it's appearance time.
Also worth noticing, I had an issue appearing the same guard notifications several times. I found that it's somehow due to backup files with ~. Solved it adding
ignore /~$/
to the top of the Guardfile. I found the information about it here:
https://github.com/guard/listen/issues/153
I have a quite big application, running from inside spree extension. Now the issue is, all requests are very slow even locally. I am getting messages like 'Waiting for localhost" or "waiting for server" in my browser status bar for 3 - 4 seconds for each request issued, before it starts execution. I can see execution time logged in log file is quite good. But overall response time is poor because of initial delay. So please suggest me, where can I start looking into improving this situation?
One possible root cause for this kind of problem is that initial DNS name resolution is failing before eventually resolving. You can check if this is the case using tcpdump (if that's available for your platform) or wireshark. Look for taffic to and from your client host on port 53 and see if the name responses are happening in a timely fashion.
If it turns out that this is the problem then you need to make sure that the client is configured such that the first resolver it trys knows about your server addresses (I'm guessing these are local LAN addresses that are failing). Different platforms have different ways of configuring this. A quick hack would be to put the address of your server in the client's hosts file to see if that fixes it.
Once you send in your request, you will see 'waiting for host' right up until the Ruby work is done, and it starts sending a response. So, if there is pretty much any processing work that is slowing you down, you'd see this error. What you'd want to do is start looking at the functions that youre seeing the behaviour on, and breaking them down into pieces to see which peices are slow. If EVERYTHING is slow, than you need to look at the things that are common to every function - before functions, or Application Controller code, or something similar. What I do, when I'm just playing around to see what I need to fix is just put 'puts' statements in my code at different stages, to print the current time, then I can see which stage is taking a long time, you know?
This might seem like a FAQ on stackoverflow, but my requirements are a little different. While I have previously used BackgroundRB and DJ for running background processes in ruby, my requirement this time is to run some heavy analytics and mathematical computations on a huge set of data, and I need to do this only about the first 15 days of the month. Going by this, I am tempted to use cron and run a ruby script to accomplish this goal.
What I would like to know / understand is:
1 - Is using cron a good idea (cause I'm not a system admin, and so while I have basic idea of cron, I'm not overly confident of doing it perfectly)
2 - Can we somehow modify DJ to run only on the first 15 days of the month (with / without using cron), and then just stop and exit once all the jobs in the queue for the day are over (don't want it to ping the DB every time for a new job...whatever the jobs will be in the queue when DJ starts, that will be all).
I'm not sure if I have put the question in the right manner, but any help in this direction will be much appreciated.
Thanks
With cron's "minute hour day month dayofweek" time specification, 3:33am 1st through fifteenth of every month would be "33 3 1-15 * *"
Using cron would be really easy, and you have a lot of example and it is reliable.
Anyway here are few screen casts from Railcasts you may want to look at:
Starling and Workling
Custom Daemon
Yeah, why not? Go with cron. It's really well-tested in the wild, well suited for running periodical tasks and incredibly easy to use. You don't even need to learn the crontab syntax (although it's very easy) - just drop your script into /etc/cron.daily (this option might be available only on some Linux distros).
I'm not sure about the "only first fiteen days of the month" thing, but you can easily handle this condition inside your task, right?
EDIT:
Check out par's answer to see how to run the task only at a certain range of days.
I also had this requirement. I followed the "Automatic Periodic Tasks" recipe 75 in the Advanced Rails Recipes book. The recipe is written by David Bock. It has some code snippets and guidelines on how this can be achieved using cron and capistrano. However there is an unsolved (but mentioned) issue regarding users/permissions that has to be on the target machine. It is not really difficult to make it right, you just have to remember to do it and put it in you deployment capistrano scripts.
It seems that David Bock has continued to work on this and has now creaated a gem for use with cron: See his blog, and follow crondonkulous on github. Crondonkulous may very well take care of this user/permission thing and more, I haven't tried it.
Jarl