It's a handy one to know. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 20 October 2009 10:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sysadmin mistake of the week
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:18 PM, James Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never used DEVCON before. Using a command line to restart a hardware > device seems like something a Linux admin would do though :) Well, normally, I might have tried to restart the device using the DEVMGMT GUI, with "Disable" followed by "Enable". But Kurt Buff is right in that my keyboard and mouse are USB. I would be able to disable them from the GUI, but re-enabling them.... I at least saw *that* pitfall coming, and dodged it. :) So I thought, "I bet I can script something". Then I found DEVCON, which had a single-operation "restart" command -- exactly what I needed. (Well, that, and the ability to recognize potentially dangerous characters in command lines...) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
