I went a different route. Each script checks a global variable. If the value is false, no other scripts are currently running on the machine and the script can continue. If the value is true, another script is currently running and the script will check again every 2 minutes for an hour before writing out a message to a common log.
It works to keep scripts from running on top of each other. The downside with this approach is if one fails overnight, all the scripts on that machine will fail. John Taylor Revenue Cycle Analyst, Information Systems | Augusta Health Office: (540) 332-4882 | www.augustahealth.com <http://www.augustahealth.com/> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [talkbws] Killing a script that has frozen with MediTech Magic I have a VBScript that I call EndMT.vbs. It runs, by using a Shell_ statement, at the beginning of each scheduled Boston Workstation script that opens Meditech Magic. It loops through Task Manager processes and terminates occurrences of T.exe. I don't know what Meditech would think of this rather drastic method of terminating a client session, but it is invaluable to me for those rare times when all other safeguards have failed and a Meditech session remains open. John Helfrick VHS Information Services 508-363-9015 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 11:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [talkbws] Killing a script that has frozen with MediTech Magic Does your run time computer have a locked screen saver? That will stop a download cold 100% of the time. Shirley Hammack I.T. Financial Analyst Duncan Regional Hospital 580-251-8939 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 10:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [talkbws] Killing a script that has frozen with MediTech Magic Greetings, I'd implement some logging first to see what's going on first - should be able to capture what's going on and that should direct you to how to solve it. This is a shameless plug for today's webinar which covers this very subject J http://www.bostonworkstation.com/customer_center/special_events.aspx Regards, Thom Thom C. Blackwell Product Manager Boston Software Systems (866) 653-5105 ex 807 www.bossoft.com <http://www.bossoft.com/> Sign up for my weekly webinar! <http://www.bostonworkstation.com/customer_center/special_events.aspx> LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 10:48 AM To: Talk Subject: [talkbws] Killing a script that has frozen with MediTech Magic Can anyone share a routine that will kill boston runtime and the meditech instance? I have a boston script that runs every 15 minutes which downloads 3 reports from MediTech. It works great 95% of the time. The other 5%, the meditech download freezes, or the boston script doesn't exit properly. Since this is on a runtime workstation, I don't see a way to "debug" it. I am thinking about adding another scheduled task that runs 1 minute prior to the boston script to make sure boston and meditech are closed. Does anyone have a bat file or a set of commands they are willing to share to accomplish this? 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