Say you have a batch file to restart a service and you want to run it periodically from a scheduled task. Here’s one way to do it:<\/p>\n
restart.bat: restart_do_work.bat: I use two batch files to make it easier to debug. Any output from the _do_work batch file will be stored in the log file. This includes the commands themselves, which shows where the batch file was when the error occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Say you have a batch file to restart a service and you want to run it periodically from a scheduled task. Here’s one way to do it: restart.bat: cd \/d %~d0%~p0 echo %date% %time% %Username% > lastrun.log 2>&1 echo — RUNNING %~d0%~p0restart_do_work.bat — >> lastrun.log 2>&1 call restart_do_work.bat >> lastrun.log 2>&1 echo — COMPLETED %~d0%~p0restart_do_work.bat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-batch-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncd \/d %~d0%~p0
\necho %date% %time% %Username% > lastrun.log 2>&1
\necho -- RUNNING %~d0%~p0restart_do_work.bat -- >> lastrun.log 2>&1
\ncall restart_do_work.bat >> lastrun.log 2>&1
\necho -- COMPLETED %~d0%~p0restart_do_work.bat -- >> lastrun.log 2>&1<\/code><\/p>\n
\nnet stop \"My Service\" > netstop.output
\nif %errorlevel% equ 2 goto NOT_ADMIN
\ntype netstop.output
\nfindstr \/c:\"could not be stopped\" netstop.output
\nif errorlevel 1 goto IT_STOPPED
\ntaskkill \/im myservice.exe \/f
\n:IT_STOPPED
\nnet start \"My Service\"
\nexit \/b
\n:NOT_ADMIN
\necho You appear to be running this with insufficient privileges.
\nexit \/b 1<\/code><\/p>\n