Best way to kill a process? Anyone?

[Guest]

Hi guys... I'm using PSKill.exe to kill processes, which allows me to kill an existing pandora instance before respawning with a new channel name. I have written a batch file in the Windows system path that works great, but when I try to launch application from HS and point to the batch file it does nothing. If I run CMD.EXE and use the path to the batch file as the paramater, it launches the command prompt but does not launch the actual command.

Can anyone give me a hint or two? I'm trial-and-erroring myself to death over here!

Adam

[Rupp]

Post the contents of the file and maybe we can spot an issue.

[jon00]

One way: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=124787

[Guest]

Well. not much to it. Here's the command:

c:\windows\system32\pskill.exe pandora.exe

Running the batch file from a command prompt produces the desired results, but from HS it simply flashes the CMD prompt window too quickly to see what error or message (if any) is being displayed.

Thanks!

[Rupp]

Well. not much to it. Here's the command:

c:\windows\system32\pskill.exe pandora.exe

Running the batch file from a command prompt produces the desired results, but from HS it simply flashes the CMD prompt window too quickly to see what error or message (if any) is being displayed.

Thanks!

How do you have the event setup? Are you using a launch application as your action? Do you have the pandora.exe in the parameters field?

[sdanks]

I think there is a /wait parameter on batchfiles. You might try that.

[Moskus]

Can't you just use taskkill?


Event Action: Launch Application
Application: taskkill.exe
Parameters: /f /im pandora.exe

[Steve Q]

I use tskill to kill Pandora. This must be run from the command prompt. So you need to create and run a batch file containing the line : tskill pandora.exe

Use the HS launch application command to launch the batch file such as kill_pandora.bat
Make sure you include the full path name of the batch file.

There may be other ways but this way is bullet proof.

Steve Q

[drozwood90]

just have homeseer call the batch file. I tend to find that the path will get you. So, typically, I do exactly what you did, call a batch file from HS.

--Dan