[windows2000] Re: Pause timer for batch files?

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:38:39 +0200

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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