[windows2000] Re: Pause timer for batch files?
- From: Mark Cook <mc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:23:08 +0100
Yeah for a while, sadly as the db grew the performance of AIDA32 got worse,
eventually we gave up due to the time taken to do the audit !
-----Original Message-----
From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 May 2004 14:21
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Pause timer for batch files?
On Mon, 24 May 2004 14:12:03 +0100, Mark Cook wrote:
>Weird, try a pause statement after the start /wait etc. etc. to see if it
>reports any errors ? The start /wait still runs in the same user context
so
>should be fine.
I'll try it later. FOr now the timeout.exe seems to do what I want.
>Still think start /wait is a neater option but hey, if you've got it
working
>then cool, way to go that man :-)
It would be neater, I agree, but sometimes the neat way is not the
way. Unfortunately.
Have you ever used aida32 with an access-db?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: 24 May 2004 14:06
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Pause timer for batch files?
>
>On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:56:37 +0100, Mark Cook wrote:
>
>>If you use it as is AIDA32 will start and the logon script will continue,
>>however, if you change it to
>>
>>Start /wait "%systemdrive%\program files\aida\aida32.exe" /R
>>\\max\aida_logs\autoreport_$DATE\$HOSTNAME.csv /NAS /SAFE /NOICONS
>>
>>then the logon script will pause until the aida32 process has completed,
>>then continue. This way you shouldn't even need a sleep command !
>
>Just tried, and it won't create a report to the share when using
>the start /wait-sequence. Strange... Any ideas as to why? I still
>think it's some kind of time-out problem, but can't figure out how
>and why.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>Sent: 24 May 2004 13:58
>>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Pause timer for batch files?
>>
>>On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:45:08 +0100, Mark Cook wrote:
>>
>>>Are you using
>>>
>>>START param1 param2 etc.
>>>
>>>in your login script to start AIDA32 or just AIDA32 without the START
>>>command ?
>>
>>No, just a plain line as below
>>
>>"%systemdrive%\program files\aida\aida32.exe" /R
>>\\max\aida_logs\autoreport_$DATE\$HOSTNAME.csv /NAS /SAFE /NOICONS
>>
>>Is the "start" statement necessary? Haven't needed it before.
>>
>>>We used AIDA32 here running from a network share and writing back
>>>to a SQL DB with no problem.
>>
>>Don't have any sql db, but plan to use an access db, if and when I
>>get this thing working... 8-/
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>Sent: 24 May 2004 13:46
>>>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Pause timer for batch files?
>>>
>>>On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:37:12 +0100, Mark Cook wrote:
>>>
>>>>How are you creating the report ?
>>>
>>>Using Aida32 on each client. I tell the client to run the locally
>>>installed aida32.exe, and to save the report to a server-share.
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>>Sent: 24 May 2004 13:39
>>>>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Pause timer for batch files?
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:26:29 +0100, Mark Cook wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Have emailed you off list with one, just knocked up for you in about
one
>>>>>minute :-)
>>>>
>>>>Thx, tried it, won't work. I mean that the timer works but the
>>>>sleep.exe induced pause doesn't allow the report to be created.
>>>>However, if I put the pause-statement back, it works. Wonder why...
>>>>
>>>>Thx though for the exe!
>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>>>Sent: 24 May 2004 13:21
>>>>>To: Windows2000 Mailing List
>>>>>Subject: [windows2000] Pause timer for batch files?
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm trying to make a hard- and software audit on our domain
>>>>>computers with free software. Aida32 if somebody is interested...
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyway, I'm trying to tell the clients to make an audit when the
>>>>>computer starts up (using a stratup script), but this failed for
>>>>>whatever reason, so I resorted to adding the script to the login
>>>>>scripts-feature in a GPO.
>>>>>
>>>>>Now, it works, but seem to have some problems with the command
>>>>>window closing to fast, as it works if I put a pause statement in
>>>>>the end of the script. To minimise user input, ie pressing a key to
>>>>>unpause the script which some users find difficult and dangerous,
>>>>>I'm speculating whether there is a "pause timer" of some sort, that
>>>>>I can tell to pause for some 30 seconds and then continue w/o the
>>>>>user input.
>>>>>
>>>>>The script I'm running is a simple batch script, no vbs or similar
>>>>>at all.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anybody know of a simple timer that would do what I want?
BW,
Sorin
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