I have found that stopping iisadmin is best as it seems some of the .dll's do not unload just stopping the web service. On my authentication box I do this each morning so I can back up a database that is also linked via the web service. Dusty ----- Original Message ----- From: Rubens Altimari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] [OT] Setting NT to automatically log-in upon restart... > >I have a batch set up that > runs automatically at that time which does a "net stop w3svc, net stop > msftpsvc, kill inetinfo, net start w3svc, net start msftpsvc", a cycle > which usually takes only 30 seconds to complete. > > > Just a small note: for IIS4, in order to really unload the whole > InetInfo, you should run "net stop iisadmin" instead of w3svc and/or > msftpsvc. This has changed from IIS3. Then you can run "kill inetinfo" and > "net start w3svc/msftpsvc" as usual... This way, maybe the "kill inetinfo" > will run only after inetinfo leaves memory graciously... Of course, if > inetinfo is messed up this will not accomplish anything... > > Rubens > > >
