On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 23:58, Gary Thornock wrote: > --- David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you know that it impossible to directly[1] reboot a Windows > > machine from the command line? > > In a "stock" windows setup that's true; however, you can address > the problem fairly easily by downloading psshutdown from > www.sysinternals.com. While you're there, you'll probably find > that you also want pslist, pskill and a few others that I don't > remember offhand.
Stock windows can't do anything. (I payed 150 dollars for what?) This might seem kind of heretical to be discussing this, but the CS dept and the Chemistry dept have been scripting their windows machines using cygwin, ssh, psutils and so fort for a long time now. Using bash scripting the other day, for example, I installed the cult3d internet explorer plugin on all my openlab machines in chemistry remotely. Had to do some special work with the registry (created some .reg file to be inserted). Basically the moral of the story is that in order to be half-way decently capable of administration, windows has to be quite unix-like. Cygwin provides this. And makes my life livable. That and VNC. In CS at one time, I did have a crazy idea to allow remote logins by users generally and install the full developer tools (gcc, vim, make, etc). I never did this because there are some massive limitations to how windows does multi-user stuff (it doesn't). <ignore> While I'm at it, what kind of idiot designed the microsoft windows message-passing system that requires a freaking GUI window just to receive any kind of events from the kernel?! To do many things like background services and so forth you have to create a hidden window. So stupid. </ignore> > > Oh, yes, and the BSOD screen saver (not that the genuine BSOD > isn't already the screen saver, but this one won't make you reboot :) > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
