I have a Windows XP SP2 virtual machine which can be accessed via VNC. It's also running Deep Freeze so there should be no problem in forcing it to reboot. I am looking for a way to force the operating system to reboot instead of shutting down or completely remove the ability to shut down the machine using software applications (such as ...
I have pushed my .htaccess files to the production severs, but they don't work. Would a restart be the next step, or should I check something else. ...
I've been using Remote Desktop to get into a workstation but I'm not able to use the shutdown/restart function in the Start menu while doing this. I've put a few really helpful options in the answer below. As I cannot accept this answer, please vote up if you find it appropriate. Note: I wanted to make sure some really good answers ...
At the moment I have a console application. I would like to be able to exit the application, update through svn, recompile and then relaunch. This is running under a Linux environment. At the moment I'm not sure how I would be able to relaunch the application. Is there a way to do this? ...
I'm writing a web application that will have "plugins". The plugins will be .DLL files which will export their functionality through predefined interfaces 'n stuff. All the .DLL files are in a folder called "Plugins", and the ASP.NET application loads them all upon startup (by using Assembly.LoadFrom). The problem is that when developin...
I need to simple way to allow an end user to restart tomcat from a web page served from apache on the same box. We're trying to make it easy for our QC department to deploy a new version of our webapp to apache. We're using samba, but we need an easy way for them to stop / start the tomcat server before/after the deployment. This would...
Hey gang, I need to know if i need to restart my computer to get .net 3.5 to work with my web applications after i install it. My server machine is using IIS. On my local machine the web app works fine. When i browse to it on the server, i'm seeing errors like the Linq assemblies can't be found ... even though the references are in the ...
Is there a recommended way to bounce an asp.net application besides touching web.config from inside the application? is HttpRuntime.UnloadAppDomain(); the preferred way to do this ? and if so where do you do this? in the unload of a page or some other place in the application ...
We all know that modifying a .NET web application's web.config file restarts the app and makes it read the updated configuration. How do you do that with a console or WinForms app? Thanks :) ...
I have a service, say foo, written in C++, that runs as root. There is the usual scrip, /etc/init.d/foo start|stop|restart. At certain times, foo needs to reload itself. Normally after an upgrade has finished. But doing things like: system("/etc/init.d/foo restart") doesn't work since as soon as restart kills foo, the system() cal...
I pulled the code straight from MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404263.aspx This updates my application, but Restart() does not work. The application shuts down, but does not restart. I added a MenuItem to my Form to validate that Restart() works at all: private void restartToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, Even...
Hi there, Right now i have some sort of services application on windows server 2003 for inputting data from devices into database. Sometimes the services fail due to data error or anything else (database connection problem, internet connection down, etc) which i have to restart the services, right now the solution i provide for this pr...
Developing a C# .NET 2.0 WinForm Application. Need the application to close and restart itself. Application.Restart(); The above method has proven to be unreliable. What is a better way to restart the application? ...
I heard Kevin Skoglund (lynda.com) say that it is good practice to get in the habit of restarting Webrick frequently during development. Although generally you do not need to restart Webrick to see your changes, he implied that there are particular times when this may be needed? Does anyone know what those circumstances might be? This ma...
I have 2 server programs that must be started with the use of GNU Screen. I'd like to harden these servers against crashes with a Python based program that kicks off each screen session then monitors the server process. If the server process crashes, I need the python code to kill the extraneous screen session and restart the server with...
I need to detect when a program crashes or is not running using python and restart it. I need a method that doesn't necessarily rely on the python module being the parent process. I'm considering implementing a while loop that essentially does ps -ef | grep process name and when the process isn't found it starts another. Perhaps thi...
I know that when Windows is shutting down, it sends a WM_QUERYENDSESSION message to each application. This makes it easy to detect when Windows is shutting down. However, is it possible to know if the computer going to power-off or is it going to restart after Windows has shutdown. I am not particularly hopeful, considering the document...
I have a service, as follows: """ The most basic (working) CherryPy 3.1 Windows service possible. Requires Mark Hammond's pywin32 package. """ import cherrypy import win32serviceutil import win32service import sys import __builtin__ __builtin__.theService = None class HelloWorld: """ Sample request handler class. """ def __i...
Basic MSI project, from release wizard I chose Install Windows Installer 3.1 or 2.0 (best fit for system), extract from setup.exe. When in installation, after installing Windows installer system restarts. Can this restart be stopped anyway? ...
Hi, I frequently reboot into Windows on a bootcamp partition in my Mac Pro (e2008) (Mac Os X 10.5.6). Because I like to use the time it takes to reboot for other things instead of just sitting around I'd like to write/execute a simple applescript that would basically do: Quit all running user applications Then*—after the apps have bee...