That's a very intelligent approach - and scriptable, also. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2002-03-26 09:27 Subject: Re: Forced Shutdown of Windows NT/2K Systems
> John Roland Elliott wrote: > > Isn't anyone else at least a little disappointed with these > > "shutdown-and-I-really-mean-it-this-time-comma-dammit" approaches? When > > there are processes running on my machines that don't or can't honor > > shutdown requests, I kinda wanna know about it. > > Sometimes a process is simply busy and can't shut down for a few moment, > so it tells the OS it's a bad time. Another possibility is that an > application is waiting for you to ack the save=yes/no dialog. > > Personally, I usually issue a forceful shutdown in 300 seconds, then > shutdown myself manually. If the shutdown is aborted, then 300 seconds > later the forceful shutdown resolves the problem. > > > > > -- > The nice thing about standards, there is enough for everyone to have their own. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
