Vista - Monitor content of a specific file every 2 seconds

Hi Group

Is there a way to manipulate Windows standard scheduler to run a
script every 2' second?

The script is reading a file only containing a "flag" 1 or 0.

Cheers

Hi,

i think it should be even easier to take one script sleeping for two secconds..

wscript.sleep 2000

regards Dirk

"Leon" <kim.zethsen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:62eaa25a-1a56-4a87-88d4-0b963e8ebe41@xxxxxxI don't think you can modify the Task Scheduler to do this (and the
overheads in getting it to run a task once every 2 seconds are possibly
prohibitive), but you could use this method:
How Can I Check Every 30 Minutes to See If a File Has Been Modified?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...7/hey0723.mspx

On 5 Feb., 22:42, "Dirk Stegemann" <dsgra...@xxxxxx> wrote:Hi Dirk

I have thought about monitoring like the code hereunder (I really am
new in this) which are just monitoring new files...
But you are tight that sounds much more simple.

************************************************************************************
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colMonitoredEvents = objWMIService.ExecNotificationQuery _
("SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent WITHIN 0.1 WHERE " _
& "Targetinstance ISA 'CIM_DirectoryContainsFile' and " _
& "TargetInstance.GroupComponent= " _
& "'Win32_Directory.Name=""c:\\\\scripts""'")
Do
Set objLatestEvent = colMonitoredEvents.NextEvent
Wscript.Echo objLatestEvent.TargetInstance.PartComponent
Loop
************************************************************************************

Thanks Dirk
:-)

Leon wrote:Why not just run the script in an endless loop?
What exactly does the script do besides read a flag file?

More information is essentially necessary.

--
Todd Vargo
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On 5 Feb., 22:44, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@xxxxxx> wrote:Hi Pegasus

No - the thing is - that another system (online scada) is raising a
flag on a specifik event and writes to the file whereafter I have to
alert some users at once on that event

Cheers

On 5 Feb., 22:51, "Todd Vargo" <tlva...@xxxxxx> wrote:Essentially you're right.
I just want to check if the file have been modified an if so read the
content. Thats bassically it.
Can be done as you mentioned.

I also want to name the proces so I can se in it windows task manager
under processes.
Not only wscript.exe - but something like "monitoring_folder" - just
so I can see it and so that a another vbs script (from standard
scheduler every minut) can monitor that this is running.

"Leon" <kim.zethsen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:813a1495-8ac2-42f2-ba06-bab4150322f0@xxxxxxNo it isn't. Elsethread you said the script needs to "alert some users" as
soon as the flag file is changed by "another system (online scada)". How
many users, and how do you need to alert them?

/Al

Leon <kim.zethsen@xxxxxx> typed:
Try this one (provide the path to the file as the first argument):

' MoniFile.vbs
Option Explicit

Const Archive = 32, ForReading = 1
Dim fso

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If WScript.Arguments.Count > 0 Then
Do While fso.FileExists(WScript.Arguments(0))
With fso.GetFile(WScript.Arguments(0))
If .Attributes And Archive Then
With .OpenAsTextStream(ForReading, vbUseDefault)
WScript.Echo .ReadAll
.Close
End With
.Attributes = .Attributes Xor Archive
End If
End With
WScript.Sleep 2000
Loop
End If
Don't know, sorry.

--
ЯR

On 6 Feb., 02:00, "Ruediger Roesler"
<administra...@xxxxxx> wrote:OK .-) Thank you for your answers and taking time.
Have a nice weekend

Leon