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can not run gitlab-runner as a windows scheduled task

Hi,

On a windows server, i want to run the gitlab-runner within a scheduled task (at server startup event).

For some reason, we could not run into a windows service (no access to graphical environment inside the windows service)

If i run it directly through the command or within a powershell script, i have no problem. If i run it through a scheduled job, the runner never appear in the task manager and is unavailable for the jobs

Command line ok 🆗 C:\gitlab-runner\gitlab-runner-windows-amd64.exe run --working-directory C:\gitlab-runner --config C:\gitlab-runner\config.toml

Windows scheduled task 🙅 scheduledTask

I don't have any particular bad logs in the scheduled task, everything is successfull but still no runner... :(

Is there any issue/drawback by encapsulating the start of the runner within a scheduled task please ? Can somebody reproduce the issue please Thanks tito