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Windows/DOS
Kill processes by image name
Have a runaway process with hundreds or thousands of programs (eg: cmd.exe) all running and need to kill them all in one go?
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How to force logoff a session on another server
Method 1 with the TSM GUI
- Launch Terminal Services Manager (in Administrative Tools)
- In the menu: Actions “Connect to Computer…”
- Enter name of server you want to get on to
- Right-click and logoff one of the displayed sessions
Method 2 with Command prompt
- Launch Windows (DOS) box
- Enter “query session /server:<servername>”
- Enter “logoff <ID> /server:<servername>”
Return the value of a function into a variable in DOS batch .bat file
What an awful language!
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Create a Scheduled Task from the command line
This one is particularly interesting as I need to start a shell Cygwin shell script on a regular basis<br /> As crontab is not implemented by default, I use the Windows Scheduler to start the jobs.<br /> This one creates a task called dbamon_dblist tat runs a shell every 10 minutes starting at 9 am and going on for 24 hours (so, forever).<br /> It is run a user different from the logged on user. The echo at the start is to answer N to the question “Task exists, do you want to replace it”. For some reason that doesnt work too well :(
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Scheduled Task seems to do nothing. Runs but stops immediately
- Check task scheduler log
Advanced:View log …
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- Check error code given
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Not very helpful on the part of Microsoft but the 80 error turned out to be a whole load of sqlplus.exe processes (100's) hanging around in the task manager<br /> Killed them and jobs started running again.