Running a scheduled task as SYSTEM with console window open

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Published on 2009-08-31T17:10:01Z Indexed on 2012/06/29 3:18 UTC
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I am auto creating scheduled tasks with this line within a batch windows script:

schtasks /Create /RU SYSTEM /RP SYSTEM /TN startup-task-%%i /TR %SPEEDWAY_DIR%\%TARGET_DIR%%%i\%STARTUPFILE% /SC HOURLY /MO 1 /ST 17:%%i1:00

I wanted to avoid using specific user credentials and thus decided to use SYSTEM.

Now, when checking in the taskmanagers process list or, even better, directly with the

C:\> schtasks

command itself, all is working well, the tasks are running as intended.

However in this particular case I would like to have an open console window where I can see the log flying by.

I know I could use

C:\> tail -f thelogfile.log

if I installed e.g. cygwin (on all machines) or some proprietary tools like Baretail on Windows. But since I only switch to these machines in case of trouble, I would prefer to start the scheduled task in such a way that every user immediately sees the log.

Any chance?

Thanks!

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