COMMAND

    Schedule

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    WinNT

PROBLEM

    Rob Aldridge discovered a nasty  bug in the AT command  / Schedule
    service.  In a command  file he has a "continuation  character" --
    a carry-over from my VAX/DCL background -- on the AT command line,
    like this:

        AT 21:48:00 /every:M,T,W,Th,F -
        F:\TEST\RUNJOB.CMD > RUNJOB.OUT

    This  "continuation  character"  is  of  course  illegal at the NT
    command  line.   But  what  did  happen  is  that  a job named "-"
    (hyphen) became  infinitely scheduled  on the  NT system.   Within
    seconds,  you  will  have  hundreds  of  scheduled jobs to run the
    command "-" (hyphen).

    Stopping the Schedule  service, will help  for a moment,  but what
    to  do  with  the  thousands  of  bogus  Schedule entries?  Manual
    deletion using REGEDT32 would have taken a long time!  One of  the
    problems working against you  is that the Schedule  service cannot
    be started without actually running the submitted jobs.

SOLUTION

    Dirty fix is to kill Schedule service from running, delete it  him
    and then add the service back to the system.