shutdown

How to get set process shutdown level?

Here is my case. I have a process running in my system. I want that process to end last when a shutdown/logoff is initiated. I read http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683221%28VS.85%29.aspx and understood that we can assign shutdown levels to process.But I couldn't figure out how to do that. Can anyone help me with a example on h...

twisted: catch keyboardinterrupt and shutdown properly

If I have a client connected to a server, and it's chilling in the reactor main loop waiting for events, when I hit CTRL-C, I get a "Connection to the other side was lost in a non-clean fashion: Connection lost." How can I set it up so that I know when a KeyboardInterrupt happens, so that I can do proper clean-up and disconnect cleanly? ...

twisted: how to communicate elegantly between reactor code and threaded code?

I have a client connected to a server using twisted. The client has a thread which might potentially be doing things in the background. When the reactor is shutting down, I have to: 1) check if the thread is doing things 2) stop it if it is What's an elegant way to do this? The best I can do is some confused thing like: def cleanup(s...

Shutting down computer with nasm.

Is it possible to shut down or kill the power (is there a difference?) to a computer from nasm. I know you can use this to reboot: mov al, 0xFE out 0x64, al Is there an equivalent for shutting down? ...

intercept shutdown in windows using vbscript

Hello guys, I want to write a vbscript that will wait for windows shutdown and intercept to carry out proper action before shutting down. I want this to be in vbscript since am using it for administration. ...

Why does a .NET application prevent Windows from shutting down?

One of my applications prevents windows from shutting down if it is running. The only spot where I suspect the cause may be is FormClosing event handler, which is however quite standard: EDIT: Removing this handler does not change the situation at all so the cause is somewhere else. private void MainForm_FormClosing(object sender, For...

Qt Application Blocking System Shutdown

Hi, I have a Qt 4.6.2 application, running on a Windows XP SP2 x64 system. When I press the physical power/shutdown button on the system, when my application is running nothing will happen, the app will not close and the system does not Shutdown. If I go to start menu and click shutdown, then my application will close but the system w...

Can I proactively close my iOS app?

There are some rare data-corruption circumstances where rather than attempt a recovery in the same session, I'd like to perform some fixes and then shutdown the app so the next launch will be safe. Short of hard crashing the app with something dumb like *(unsigned int *)0 = 0xDEADBEEF, I can't find an API in Cocoa that causes a graceful...

How to update application without stopping JEE server?

I have an application running on a JBoss server. We need update the application time to time. However, the JBoss is not allowed stop(restart) during update for business reason. How do I handle this tricky situation? Thanks! 2 cases: If the application is deployed in multi servers in cluster mode. If the application is deployed in a si...

How to use command to shutdown grails run-app

After executing "grails run-app", except using "Ctrl + C", is there a command to shutdown it? ...

Linux Shutdown with dbus-send

Hey, I am writing a Java app to shutdown my Linux box remotely. The desktop app sits and waits for a command to be sent to it. I have tried using "shutdown -h" but this requires sudo privileges and is not an option. I then found a way to shutdown without sudo using the following dbus-send solution: dbus-send --print-reply --system -...

How to shutdown a locked PC (vb.net)?

Shutting down a pc in vb.net is easy: Process.Start("shutdown", "-s -t 00") unless the user has locked the pc in which case the above fails. How do I get around this in vb.net? How do I shutdown a locked PC? The program will be running locally. ...

Getting a formless C# program to close itself during shutdown/restart?

I'm writing a program which creates no forms at all until one is required. The problem is, it's preventing shutdown from continuing automatically. I've seen discussions about adding an if to form closing events to check if it's due to shutdown, but as I've said, my program is meant to have no forms at all until required. Is there any ev...

What does the JBoss 5 shutdown do?

At a high level, what does JBoss 5's shutdown do? What might go wrong if I just kill the java process instead of gracefully shutting down JBoss? A graceful JBoss 5 shutdown takes about 6 minutes for my application, which is pretty big and has 305 EJBs. JBoss seems to pause for a long time just before unbinding the EJB LocalHomes from ...

Python : Closing a socket already opened by a precedent python program or dirty trick to close a socket.

here is my dirty little web server : class Serverhttp: def __init__(self): self.GET = re.compile("GET.*?HTTP") self.POST = re.compile("POST.*?HTTP") try : sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) server_address = ('localhost', 36000) print >>sys.stderr, 'starting up on %s port %s' % se...

Stop a Asyncronous TCP Application Properly

Hi i have a disconnect button click event in my SERVER application as follows.Before it dc, it will alert other clients by sending a "/exit" command.After that it will shutdown its connection. private void stopButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { byte[] exit_command = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("/exit"); g_server...

PC shutdowns automatically while playing video

Hi, I'm using windows vista PC. When I'm playing video for more than 15 mins, PC is automatically shutting down. What could be the problem? Can anyone help me...Thanks in advance.... ...

Java Shutdown Hook Issues

My shutdown hooks will not run. The shutdown hook is intended to print out statistics after the program has terminated for all philosopher threads that had been running. The philosopher class extends Thread, and simply chews and eats based on if forks are available or not. Here is my code. public class Main { private static ArrayLis...

My PC keeps restarting!!

Hello guys, I have this wiered issue for a month from now, I sometimes have troubles trying to initiate the PC to work, it has XP on it, and it loads the progress bar then a power failure occurs, and sometimes, it takes longer time to restart (i.e: I type in my username and password) then it restarts, I noticed that the Power Supply's f...