#why-cant-it-fix-itself

[svaj]

Fixing broken Scheduled Tasks in the CF 10 admin

Today I ran into a fun bug with the CF admin.  You might inherit a Coldfusion server, and it might be broken, and you might now know it. 

 I found out my development instance of CF was broken when I went into the CF admin and tried to view the scheduled tasks page.  This is what I got:

Yay!  I don’t even have a E:/cf_10/ directory on this linux machine!  How is this possible!

After some googling it looks like this is a bug that has been reported to Adobe: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3575011 and https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3621124.  The solution?  Fix your (probably) corrupted lib/neo-cron.xml file and restart CF.

Below is a sample blank neo-cron.xml file as CF is not cool enough to know how to fix this file if its empty (this was my case) or doesn’t exist (I tried this too).

<wddxPacket version='1.0'>    <header/>    <data>        <array length='4'>            <struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap'>            </struct>            <boolean value='true'/>            <string></string>            <string>log,txt</string>        </array>    </data> </wddxPacket>

After resetting your neo-cron.xml file, you should be able to restart CF and see a very blank, yet functioning, scheduled tasks page in the admin interface.