I would like to execute a program from the MS-DOS command prompt on a WinNT machine and have it run in the background so that I can close the MS-DOS window and the process will continue to run. In short I'm looking for the equivalent of the Unix command: nohup. Does this exist, and if so, what is it? If it does not exist what are my alternatives?
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the equivalent of nohup dont exist im affraid :(
one way is to start your sheduler in control panel/services (set this to auto so you aint got to manually start it when your machine boots)
then use the at command from the promt to shedule the task
c:>at 10:00 d:\yourprj.exe
will start your program at 10:00 am
if you want to say do it every wekday at 10
C:>at 10:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f D:\yourprj.exe
makerp,
i had tried the at command and it wasn't working. but after i got your answer i tried again. still no luck. it turns out the problem was the schedule service was not started on my computer. the schedule service has to be started before the at command will work. now that i know the problem, i can fix it. thanks for the help.
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by: izwizPosted on 2000-07-25 at 02:10:41ID: 3560140
You need to install the program as a service (there is a resource kit utility that will do this). Then just use 'net start' to start the service and 'net stop' to stop it (in a batch file if you like).