Going to try something different here, I notice that I am not paying a lot of attention to my site lately, and there isn’t a good reason not to. So for the next 30 days, until July 8th, I am going to attempt to do a post a day. I am also going to try weekends as well. The reason for this is I have a lot of things that I want to share, and I have been meaning to share from basic tech knowledge and into cars. This will also be an exercise in brushing up on my writing skills, I seem to be lacking a little bit there.

For the first post lets do a scripts to remove all the scheduled tasks on servers. We want to list all the scheduled tasks on a server, ok not a problem if you have one server you can login and view them, or you can list them remotely with

schtasks /query /s ServerName

TaskName                             Next Run Time            Status        
============================================================
FileScript1                                        23:59:00, 1/5/2010       Running        
MyTasksForStuff2                          07:00:00, 1/6/2010       Running       

Now, you want to check the tasks on 15 servers, this gets more cumbersome and a little time consuming. So lets say you have this neat little shell script that helps you loop items so that you can one script multiple times

@echo off

if x==%1x goto MyServers1

if x==%2x goto MyServers2

for /f %%a in (%1) do call %2 %%a

goto end

:MyServers1

echo.

echo.

echo.

echo Run.bat syntax:

echo ---------------

echo.

echo Example:  run.bat list.txt program.cmd

echo.

echo 'list.txt' should contain a list of computers/IPs 

echo (one to each line) to each execute 'program.cmd'

echo.

echo The names of files are not important as long as they 

echo are specified after the run command.

echo.

echo.

echo.

echo.

:end

Save this as run.bat

Next we want to take our 1 line from above and put it into its own bat file with 1 change.

echo “Server Name: %1” 
schtasks /query /s %1

Save that as “ViewTasks.bat”

Next we need to setup a text file that contains all the servers we want to view the scheduled task on.

Server1

Server2

Server3

Now put it all together and you will see your results

run.bat list.txt ViewTakss.bat

"Server Name:" Server1
TaskName                             Next Run Time            Status        
============================================================
FileScript1                                        23:59:00, 1/5/2010       Running        
MyTasksForStuff2                          07:00:00, 1/6/2010       Running       

ServerName: Server2
TaskName                             Next Run Time            Status        
============================================================
FileScript1                                        23:59:00, 1/5/2010       Running        
MyTasksForStuff2                          07:00:00, 1/6/2010       Running       

And you can see your tasks running. Now lets say you want to delete them. Again test with the schtasks command

schtasks /delete  /s ServerName /TN * /f

This will remove the tasks with only a complete as the last line.

So if you save this as “DeleteTasks.bat”

schtasks /delete  /s %1 /TN * /f

You can now run it as a script on all your servers with

run.bat list.txt DeleteTasks.bat

And it will remove all the scheduled tasks from your servers that you have in your list.txt

So I am using an odd assortment of things in my little world. I have Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Debian Linux on my work/home machines and strangely enough they all have web cams. With that I remembered that I have an account over at UStream.tv and that I did broadcast before, so why not do it again. 

Found the only issue is that my debian desktops dont like to broadcast, this seems to be a common issue with Linux desktop because Flash does not prompt you to allow or deny  the application. In poking around I found the application WebCam Studio for Linux and on the bottom of the "Installing on Ubuntu" page was the answer. 

1. Close all browsers

2. Go here:  http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html

3.  Find "www.ustream.tv" and "cdn1.ustream.tv" and change them from "Always Ask" to "Allow" 

4. restart web browser, go to UStream.tv, login, and click broadcast. 

If your camera does work in linux you should not be able to broadcast.

If this doesnt work, make sure your webcam works in general because this is only a solution for broadcasting on websites, not making your cam work.  

I might do another post tonight if i am feeling motivated enough