hooksin

Alright I know it's in the wrong forum...first time ok, but

a quick question: how can I kill an active .bat file from cmd on NT?
file is hung waiting for response in background I think, as person who wrote the .bat forgot the all important /Y.
Can't reboot server, no point in regedit because hive is not dynamic, and reload of hive is same as re-boot anyway.
any ideas from you DOS guru's??

thanks

Nick

ChrisB

Off the top of my head - does it not show up in Task Manager as an active app? Or try looking in the Processes List for CMD.EXE and kill that.

Chris.

chiark

Kill NTVDM.exe within the Process list from task manager (press ctrl-shift-esc to access)

AWD

If it is a batch file can't you use CTRL-C to abort it?

Otherwise use TaskManager and kill the relevant process.

hooksin

Chris - tried the first 10 things you would normally think of, and the next 10 as well...

task manager gives an "access denied", as if it was a system critical process.

their is no cmd window open either

Chiark - looked for that originally, their are no vdm's running, only cmd.exe
if running .bat file in NT does it open a virtual session or run as a seperate cmd.exe??

any more ideas.....
sorry once again about the wrong forum guys but need a speedy response.

Nick

[This message has been edited by hooksin (edited 02 January 2001).]

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IntegraR

Perhaps you could use Regedit to find out which service its dependant on, or waiting for, and then kill that first.

ChrisB

Try Kill.exe from the NT Res Kit?

D/L if required from

IntegraR

or maybe use the "net stop filename.bat" command from Command Prompt.
Failing which, tell all your users to hang ten, and after removing the .bat from Start Up, reboot.

hooksin

Chris B - thanks, vaguely remember someone mentioning that last year, but you get the credit for this one, worked a treat.

cheers anyone else....

btw, I have the full Winternals Admin kit if any of you sad IT professional type people require a proper recovery suite. let me know.