SOT: Ending tasks with ColdFusion

Is there anyway to end a process or task running on a Win2k machine with CF?  Possibly a call to something with cfexecute? Thanks, Scott

Scott Mulholland wrote: >Is there anyway to end a process or task running on a Win2k machine with >CF?  Possibly a call to something with cfexecute? > >   > use kill.exe from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. Jesse

Jesse, I looked at that option but don't you need to know the PID of what you are killing.  In my case I need to kill all instances of a certain app....i.e. notepad.exe Scott Scott Mulholland wrote: >Is there anyway to end a process or task running on a Win2k machine >with CF?  Possibly a call to something with cfexecute? > >   > use kill.exe from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. Jesse

Actually, you can kill something without needing the PID. You can execute the following: kill notepad and that will kill all occurances of notepad running... usage: KILL [options] <<pid> | <pattern>>            [options]:                -f     Force process kill            <pid>               This is the process id for the task                to be killed.  Use TLIST to get a                valid pid            <pattern>               The pattern can be a complete task               name or a regular expression pattern               to use as a match.  Kill matches the               supplied pattern against the task names               and the window titles. Regards, -- Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager On-Line Data Solutions, Inc. - www.CoolFusion.com  - 631-737-4668 x101 inFusion Mail Server (iMS) - The Award-winning, Intelligent Mail Server ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Oops, didn't see these before sending my own response. I don't have the Win2k Resource Kit, but there are freeware Win32 ps and kill utilities available.  As I offered in my last email, feel free to contact me and I'll send it/them to you. -- Mosh Teitelbaum evoch, LLC Tel: (301) 625-9191 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: mosh.teitelbaum@evoch.com WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

pstools from www.sysinternals.com -- jon mailto:jonhall@ozline.net Thursday, December 5, 2002, 4:14:13 PM, you wrote: MT> Oops, didn't see these before sending my own response. MT> I don't have the Win2k Resource Kit, but there are freeware Win32 ps and MT> kill utilities available.  As I offered in my last email, feel free to MT> contact me and I'll send it/them to you. MT> -- MT> Mosh Teitelbaum MT> evoch, LLC MT> Tel: (301) 625-9191 MT> Fax: (301) 933-3651 MT> Email: mosh.teitelbaum@evoch.com MT> WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- MT>

Thanks everyone for their help.  I found kill.exe on the Win2k cd. Scott Oops, didn't see these before sending my own response. I don't have the Win2k Resource Kit, but there are freeware Win32 ps and kill utilities available.  As I offered in my last email, feel free to contact me and I'll send it/them to you. -- Mosh Teitelbaum evoch, LLC Tel: (301) 625-9191 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: mosh.teitelbaum@evoch.com WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----