pstools is a free suite of command-line tools for Windows NT/2000 from SysInternals (formerly NTInternals).
SysInternals (www.sysinternals.com) has a wide range of free NT/2000 tools (some work with xp, some just NT, etc.), and the source code is available for most of them. They also have a licensed-software branch, Winternals (www.winternals.com), that sells more powerful versions of these products. Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell are the primary techs at sysinternals/winternals. They've put out NTFSDOS, Fat32 for NT 4, ERD Commander, and other interesting tools. The free tools are big favorites of mine - especially pagedefrag and contig. I've got contig scheduled to defragment (not optimize) my drive nightly. I use contig and psexec in a cmd file to kick off disk defragmentation on remote systems. I found that I can do full product uninstalls using psexec and batch files. It's incredible stuff - I'd recommend it for anyone managing multiple Windows NT or 2000 boxes. -David -----Original Message----- From: Mark Seniow [mailto:mseniow@;smsolutions.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:43 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Command execs Please forgive my ignorance, but my interest has now been peaked. What is pstools? Thanks. - Mark -----Original Message----- From: Rosiak, John [mailto:john_rosiak@;mcgraw-hill.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:34 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Command execs Pstools is the right ticket....I am lovin this :-)..... Just the right complement for a tool like SA thanks for the help ! John -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Brereton [mailto:Stuart.Brereton@;X-TANT.COM] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 5:10 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Command execs I can vouch for the PSTools. It is extreemly versatile, robust and very powerful. As Davis said, you MUST test the applications first, we had a few problems but were soon ironed out. I would also advise getting all of the utils that your going to use one 1 box first, before moving on to your other servers Stuart Brereton ntl: Business Managed Network Services Customer Networks Operations Centre (CNOC) Network Technician / Network Specialist E-mail: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: - +44 (0)1527 494005 Mobile: - 07990 648 889 -----Original Message----- From: Sloane, David [mailto:DSloane@;vfa.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:35 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SA-list] Command execs For remote command execution, try psexec - part of PSTools - from www.sysinternals.com. It's extremely powerful when administering systems - you can start a wide range of processes remotely. Using psexec with batch programs can do great things for sysadmin productivity. Be careful though, that you test applications first before triggering them remotely on a wide scale. Some apps behave, others don't. -David PS - For extra fun, try "psexec \\servername cmd" (and then, again, be very careful). PPS - Did I mention you should use psexec with great care? -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:dirk@;woodstone.nu] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] Command execs You can't execute a command on a remote system like that, the only way to do that is using remote services that execute the command. dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:salive-owner@;woodstone.nu]On Behalf Of Rosiak, John Sent: Thu Nov 14 8:50 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [SA-list] Command execs Hi, I have my 'dumb' hat on today. I am trying to execute a "bat" file as part of an escalation. The log indicates the command was processed, but it does not perform the requested functions. Where does the bat file reside ?? The command line is \\%h\c$\delmail.bat The log info is: Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:07:57 PM External check of :"h:\salivecheck\countfiles.exe" ini="h:\salivecheck\countfiles.ini" section=mailcheckhot logging=yes Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:08:02 PM 1110 Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:08:02 PM DoExternalCheck : returned value : 1110 Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:08:02 PM Escalation procedure for 152.159.214.60 Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:08:02 PM Executed command (\\152.159.214.60\c$\delmail.bat) Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:08:02 PM Executing command: \\152.159.214.60\c$\delmail.bat Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:08:02 PM Executed external command (\\152.159.214.60\c$\delmail.bat) John 609.426.5842 To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
