Actually, the patch files themselves have switches that will suppress rebooting. I think for most of them the switch is "/r:n".
-----Original Message----- From: macnerd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:02 AM To: 'Tom Bryan'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: pass keystrokes You need to get Win32::GuiTest to put in keystrokes on click on buttons. There was even a recent article in the Febuary edition of Windows Developer. I managed to grab a copy from Borders before they resorted their magazines. Check out these URLs for more information: Install and Binaries -> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/E/ER/ERNGUI Documentation, etc. -> http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Win32-GuiTest Yahoo Group/Mailinglist -> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perlguitest/files > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Tom > Bryan > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 7:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: pass keystrokes > > > Hi guys, > I have written a perl script, called from a .bat file > invoked at logon > and it basically looks through a list of Microsoft OS patches based on > OSbuild and then looks in the registry to see if the machine has the > patch. This all works fine and if you dont have the patch > well it does > a system call to run the "somepatch.exe" install script from > Microsoft. > The problem is that I need to pass a "no" to the reboot message popup > window because a "yes" causes the dos window to fail and give an error > message....make sense? So my question is this, how can I pass a > keystroke to the active window either in the login.bat or the perl > script, without wrapping everything inside a scriptit type program? > > Any suggestions? > -Thanks > > Tom Bryan > College of Engineering > Network Services > Auburn University > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
