How can I schedule a reboot in Win2k server?

[mcveigh]

I know this is a newbie question and I am a newbie to win2k, But how can I tell the machine when to reboot?

also I have a .bat script I want to run at regular intervals. Is this possible or can it only be run manually or at logon?

Thanks😱

 

[NogginBoink]

In Control Panel, go to Scheduled Tasks.

Use shutdown.exe to reboot the system. Shutdown /? for syntax.

 

[badkarmah]

Noggin is exactly right. Scheduler is installed by default when you install Internet Explorer 4 through 6 I believe. You can also find it under "my computer".

 

[mcveigh]

I know about scheduler, but didn't know there was a shutdown.exe, although I was looking for that command or one like it in winnt/system32
Thanks!

ANy ideas on running a bat script at set intervals

 

[ucdnam]

Yea, you can use scheduler and choose exactly when to run your batch file. If you know how, you could also use the AT command to do the same thing.

 

[SoulAssassin]

batch file should look something like

shutdown /y /c /r

you can also throw in a little \\servername to reboot another machine

 

[mcveigh]

actually the batch file is for the computers on the network to sync their time with the server, it seems to be a known problem with Dell that winxp is having some time problems, I lose hours a day on all boxes except 1.

so i want to run "net time \\server /set /yes" like each hour on the clients. I tried it with scheduler before...maybe I did something wrong, I'll try again.

Thanks!

 

[bozo1]

shutdown.exe is in the resource kit.