Re: Scheduling a Reboot

From: Brandon S. (bsmith_at_presentationsdirect.nospam.com)
Date: 12/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:20:08 -0600

I've read that and I am using the right syntax! That's why I'm writing into
the newsgroup to figure out why it's just looping with no results when the
batch file is called by the scheduled task. 

-- 
Brandon
IT Director
Presentations Direct - Office Equipment & Supplies
http://www.presentationsdirect.com
"Olaf Rohleder" <news.nospam.group@olafrohleder.de> wrote in message 
news:%23e5Oqi45EHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi Brandon!
>
> Brandon S. wrote:
>> What command would I use in a shutdown.bat file that would shutdown
>> and restart the SBS server?  I've currently setup a scheduled task to
>> call the shutdown.bat file with the code "shutdown /r" (no quotes),
>> but it's not working.  It just repeats that code over and over and
>> over in the command prompt, but with no results.
>
> Open Command Prompt
> Type "shutdown /?"
> READ!
>
> Then you should be able to make a Batch file with the correct Syntax.
>
> CU and Merry Christmas
> Olaf
>
>

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