CFSchedule firing multiple times

Hi Ian,
I am not sure what is strange or not in the file. i dont have a known good one to compare it with.

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, i have 2 sites, one where my action pages are form my tasks is not under windows authentication, it has a very simple application.cfm file in its root, with no redirects or includes of any kind, just sets a few variables, and the task pages are in folders under the root.

The second site, is under windows authentication but no task action pages are located here.
The URL to the action pages uses the DNS name on our network of the local file to run. I can call the files individually via a browser and the updates and emails only happen one time, i can verify this in my IIS logs.

I will setup a new task that points to my dev server and runs the same basic email me the time cfm test page. Would this be the same as what you are suggesting?
I dont think IIS will show me outbound web requests and i dont know where i could get a log like that so sending the request to another server i have control over might be easier.

All the task either have a file set in the task or write to the cf log
The ones that have the file set in the task overwrite each other everytime they run, and not much is there except the output of the results.
The others that use the cflog are easier to see the duplication but not the output of the file.

ill let this run and post my results.

thanks
Tim

Hi BK,
in my task is setup to run every 15 with a start date of a few days ago and no end date or time.
it calls a file on the same server via its dsn name.
The file it calls is this:

<cfset testtext = "Testing st #now()#">

<cfset testSTname = "d:\st_test_" &
#DateFormat(now(),"yyyymmdd")#&""&#TimeFormat(now(),"HHmmss")#
&".txt">

<!--- <cffile action="write" file="#testSTname#"
output="#testtext#" nameconflict="makeunique"> --->

<cfmail to="nicetim@nicetim.com" from="test@nicetim.com"
subject="st timer test">

#Dateformat(now(),"mm/dd/yyyy")#

#TimeFormat(now(),"hh:mm:ss:l")#

</cfmail>

If you notice i commented out the file write. something was puzzling about it, it would write fine for an hour then once in awhile write multiples (by comparing the date created on the file in windows.
I then found the calls in my IIS log file, every single call was done twice at exactly the same time.
(edited for security)

2007-07-30 22:15:06 x.x.x.x GET /tools/test_ts.cfm - 80 -
x.x.x.x CFSCHEDULE 200 0 0

2007-07-30 22:15:06 x.x.x.x GET /tools/test_ts.cfm - 80 -
x.x.x.x CFSCHEDULE 200 0 0

2007-07-30 22:30:06 x.x.x.x GET /tools/test_ts.cfm - 80 -
x.x.x.x CFSCHEDULE 200 0 0

2007-07-30 22:30:06 x.x.x.x GET /tools/test_ts.cfm - 80 -
x.x.x.x CFSCHEDULE 200 0 0

2007-07-30 22:45:08 x.x.x.x GET /tools/test_ts.cfm - 80 -
x.x.x.x CFSCHEDULE 200 0 0

2007-07-30 22:45:08 x.x.x.x GET /tools/test_ts.cfm - 80 -
x.x.x.x CFSCHEDULE 200 0 0

So i decieded to make it send an email, this way there is a queue so to speak for the messages to be written, i think this is why i saw speratic multiples with cffile.

Email 1 contents: {ts '2007-07-31 01:30:00'} 01:30:00:769
Email 2 contents: {ts '2007-07-31 01:30:00'} 01:30:00:909

So far, i am only getting 2 copies for every fire of the task, but i have seen in other tasks that email, up to 6 copies.
i can see this in IIS Logs, the test cfm file being called at least twice per task for long periods, then other tasks will fire and i only see a single call to the test cfm file. but its next execution time is duplicated if there is no other tasks running during the same time period

I have dug through all the logs for each task, so far all of the task that have no end date fire multiple times.
I can see the results (files written, db records inserted, emails sent, IIS log files).
all show duplicates during same creation time Except the scheduler.log it only shows each of those tasks firing once.
I can only assume that the scheduler log is being updated correctly which leads me to belive that this log entry is done some time before the scheduler payload execution or the scheduler code dosnt log multiple triggers on its actions.

So i am going to set the End date for this test task to see if the duplicates stop.

more to come

Tim

Hi Ian,
I hope you did not hurt yourself gleaning. :)
This setup is our production server runing win2k3 IIS6 and MS SQL2k.
It is setup to be multi homed, multi server (instances) but we have never needed to spawn a new instance.
All 2 IIS sites are configured through JRun to use the single CFusion instance.

I have only one instance of CFusion running on that server and no other server calls the task pages.

I am not sure what you mean by back/restore or copy the neo files. i am assuming you mean Do i have something replacing the files after i update them? and no i dont. The neo-xxx.xml files have the same date/time as when i last updated my scheduled tasks.

After i deleted my tasks from cf schedule through cf admin, i only had 1 task that ran and it was my test task.
The cfm page was a simple email test page. i setup the task to run one time and it did, but i received 3 emails. my log file shows the emails sent to me from cf also the emails had the same date/time stamp in the header and in the body of the email (#now()#). None of the deleted tasks ran.

I then re created all of my needed tasks.


Here is an example of my logs. The first is from the scheduler.log.
Jul 29, 2007 5:15 PM Information 0
[Dispatcher] Rescheduling for :Sun Jul 29 17:30:00 EDT 2007 Now: Sun Jul 29 17:15:04 EDT 2007
Jul 29, 2007 5:15 PM Information 0
[Dispatcher] Executing at Sun Jul 29 17:15:00 EDT 2007

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Here is from another log. When the above task runs it fires a page that loops over a set of records. the select is select ID from table where checkFlag=0 Which would produce no duplicate PK records. for each record, my cfm page does a lot of work but also updates a few other tables and writes to this log file. the cflog entry is at the top of the loop before any logic.

Jul 29, 2007 5:15 PM Information 0 FSNET
AH dispatch ST checking 216984
Jul 29, 2007 5:15 PM Information 0 FSNET
AH dispatch ST checking 216984

Notice the duplicate PK numbers??!!

Anyway, this is an example of the problem. One of my tasks is responsible for sending weekly reminders to ALL of the users in my site. 1300 of them. That task runs the cfm page 3 times. you can imagine what a VP would say to you if they get 3 copies every week of an email.

I am not sure what else to put in this post, but i am ready willing and able to do anything to get this *#*@)(!)#*# issue resolved.

Thanks again
Tim