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#139276 - 2005-05-06 04:49 PM Question about how to kick off a hidden script.
thepip3r thepip3r Hey THIS is FUN Registered: 2005-03-02 Posts: 350	I'm including a script in our users' logon scripts which grabs a bunch of informaiton and then writes it to a database. Right now I'm using "Call" in our login.kix file to call my script. The problem is that it now makes the logon script take about 20 seconds longer and some users are complaining. Is there anyway that I can kick off the script hidden in the background and run it independently of the logon script so it will finish before the other one does?
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#139277 - 2005-05-06 05:04 PM Re: Question about how to kick off a hidden script.
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	You can use "RUN" to start a new thread which can run synchronously.
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#139278 - 2005-05-06 05:17 PM Re: Question about how to kick off a hidden script.
thepip3r thepip3r Hey THIS is FUN Registered: 2005-03-02 Posts: 350	Sorry, I guess I was using "RUN": Code: If InGroup ("IT.All.Personnel") RUN "\\DomainController\netlogon\kix\KIX32.exe computerinfo.kix" EndIf and the code that this was pulled from the parent logon script and it still waits for the other script to run before it closes...
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#139279 - 2005-05-06 05:19 PM Re: Question about how to kick off a hidden script.
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	Here is a simple example. This script will start and call a copy of itself (with a $iTimeToSleep parameter) The main (parent) script will exit immediately, but the child script will continue to run in the background. Code: Break ON If IsDeclared($iTimeToSleep) "Child script called"+@CRLF "Sleeping "+$iTimeToSleep+" seconds"+@CRLF Sleep Int($iTimeToSleep) "Child done sleeping, will now exit..."+@CRLF Exit 0 EndIf "Parent started, will call child..."+@CRLF RUN "kix32 "+@SCRIPTNAME+" $$iTimeToSleep=3" "Parent called chiled - will now exit"+@CRLF Exit 0 In the real world of course your child script would probably be a completely different script.
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#139280 - 2005-05-06 05:22 PM Re: Question about how to kick off a hidden script.
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	Quote: and the code that this was pulled from the parent logon script and it still waits for the other script to run before it closes... Hmmm. Try running it using "%COMSPEC%" with "START".
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#139281 - 2005-05-06 05:26 PM

Re: Question about how to kick off a hidden script.

Richard H. Offline

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Registered: 2000-01-24
Posts: 4946
Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK

...like so:
Code:

Break ON
 
If IsDeclared($iTimeToSleep)
	"Child script called"+@CRLF
	"Sleeping "+$iTimeToSleep+" seconds"+@CRLF
	Sleep Int($iTimeToSleep)
	"Child done sleeping, will now exit..."+@CRLF
	Exit 0
EndIf
 
"Parent started, will call child..."+@CRLF
RUN %COMSPEC%+" /C START /MIN kix32 "+@SCRIPTNAME+" $$iTimeToSleep=3"
"Parent called child - will now exit"+@CRLF
Exit 0

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#139282 - 2005-05-06 07:11 PM Re: Question about how to kick off a hidden script.
thepip3r thepip3r Hey THIS is FUN Registered: 2005-03-02 Posts: 350	This is what worked, thanx again Richard: Code: RUN "%COMSPEC% /C START /MIN \\DomainController\NetLogon\kix\KIX32.exe computerinfo.kix"
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