Not entirely reliable, however. Under some circumstances scripting a shutdown in this way will still fail. Once the shutdown gets to a certain stage, the forceable shutdown will no longer kick in.
I just learned the hard way earlier today :( Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: > That's a very intelligent approach - and scriptable, also. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, 2002-03-26 09:27 > Subject: Re: Forced Shutdown of Windows NT/2K Systems > > > >>John Roland Elliott wrote: >> >>>Isn't anyone else at least a little disappointed with these >>>"shutdown-and-I-really-mean-it-this-time-comma-dammit" approaches? When >>>there are processes running on my machines that don't or can't honor >>>shutdown requests, I kinda wanna know about it. >> >>Sometimes a process is simply busy and can't shut down for a few moment, >>so it tells the OS it's a bad time. Another possibility is that an >>application is waiting for you to ack the save=yes/no dialog. >> >>Personally, I usually issue a forceful shutdown in 300 seconds, then >>shutdown myself manually. If the shutdown is aborted, then 300 seconds >>later the forceful shutdown resolves the problem. >> >> >> >> >>-- >>The nice thing about standards, there is enough for everyone to have their > > own. > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: >>'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY >>See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The nice thing about standards, there is enough for everyone to have their own. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
