Re: [PLUG] not entirely off topic, killing a windows process with cron using cygwin

[Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>]

I did use the taskkill command coupled with bash, I want it to run at a certain time of day, that's why I'm using cron.  Cygwin will let you mix windows and linux commands, I used awk and grep to get the windows PID.  It's pretty beautiful, I just need to make sure that cron runs as expected.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Thomas Delrue <delrue.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's a suggestion that doesn't require cygwin (or it being open)
$> taskkill /im something.exe /f

Taskkill /? will show you the different options including one for
specifying a PID

You can use a scheduled task to kick it off whenever you want under
whichever credentials you provide

On 07/02/2015 11:18 AM, Michael Lazin wrote:
> I have a windows process that I should shut down every night.  I am
> more comfortable with bash than I am with windows anything.  I used
> cygwin and a small bash one-liner to kill my process.  I have tested
> my bash one liner and it does kill said process, my question is, do I
> have to leave my cygwin bash terminal open for cron to run my bash
> script?
>
> I checked stack overflow and they say this:
>
> stackoverflow.com/questions/707184/how-do-you-run-a-crontab-in-cygwin-on-windows
>
>  I don't have admin on my windows machine, I can't make it run as a
> service
>
> I don't want to use the windows schedular, I want to use bash
> dammit.
>
> My question to the group is is anyone familiar enough with cygwin to
> know if the cron function will work if I don't run cygwin as a
> service, do I need my cygwin bash window to be open for this to
> work?
>
> I might try scheduling a task for tonight when I'm still here to see
> if it succeeds, but I was just wondering if anyone has experience
> scheduling with cron in cygwin.

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