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DOS batch file gurus... looking for advice

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ColKurtz

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We are running a utility called scrub3 that securely erases data on our server. The utility takes rougly 30 minutes complete. We actually only need it to scrub the first 32MB of data, about 3 minute's worth. If we manually break out of the process 3-4 minutes in, we're fine, but we need to automate it. It's actually a pretty big issue for us b/c these servers are designed to e restaged very quickly.

This scrub utility is being launched from a DOS boot floppy from the autoexec.bat file. I'm trying to find out if there's a way to break out a batch file after a specified amount of time... like some counter program that runs right before I call the scrub file and it sends a break signal after 3 minutes or so.

TIA.
 
Yes, I think you can do this from the timing functions that are built into good ole GW-BASIC, version 3.23 I think !!!

Good luck.
 
psexec \\server scrub.exe
sleep 180
pskill \\server <name of process>

might work...that uses the pstools from Systernals
 
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