On the theoretical side it could be anything, since TerminateProcess has an exit code parameter. On the practical side, it’s most likely due to system shutdown. When Windows shuts down, it tries to exit running programs gracefully (more on that here). If they refuse to quit, they might be terminated by the system with the exit code 0x40010004. For … Read more
You have two options: Use Cygwin (Unix emulation library). Port to Winsock (Windows standard library). Cygwin: lets you compile your Unix sources mostly untouched, but ties you to the Cygwin emulation library. This have two implications: general performance -no only network- will probably be less than optimal; and the target environment must have (at run … Read more
You can use the services console, clicking on the left hand side and then selecting the “Connect to another computer” option in the Action menu. If you wish to use the command line only, you can use
In general, Robocopy ignores files for which lastwrittendate and filesize are the same. How can we escape this design? I’d like to force overwriting with Robocopy. I expected that dst\sample.txt should be written test001. But these file are recognized as the same files by Robocopy and not overwritten. The “/IS” option is not effective in … Read more
There may be several causes which lead to the service being stuck in “marked for deletion”. SysInternals’ Process Explorer is opened. Closing it should lead to automatic removal of the service. Task Manager is opened. Microsoft Management Console (MMC) is opened. To ensure all instances are closed, run taskkill /F /IM mmc.exe. Services console is … Read more
%RANDOM% gives you a random number between 0 and 32767. Using an expression like SET /A test=%RANDOM% * 100 / 32768 + 1, you can change the range to anything you like (here the range is [1…100] instead of [0…32767]).
Once downloaded they will be located in the bin directory: and then you will use it the same way you use it on linux by passing the same args.
Solution 1: I would suggest to use the windows task scheduler instead of a batch file. There you can create a task, schedule it to be triggered at 12am/pm and insert any cmd command you want to be executed. However, it’s non-trivial to cummunicate with the server console without knowing the specific interface or how … Read more
$LastExitCode is the return code of native applications. $? just returns True or False depending on whether the last command (cmdlet or native) exited without error or not. For cmdlets failure usually means an exception, for native applications it’s a non-zero exit code: Cancelling a cmdlet with Ctrl+C will also count as failure; for native applications it depends on what exit code they set.
Just like it says: Your C: drive doesn’t have a label, or name. You can assign one with the label command: or in the Properties panel of the drive: Back in the old days, we used to give floppy disks a name. Hard drives can have one as well, but most of the time no … Read more