[cnixuser]

hi, I'm trying to get a bat file together that pings every 5 minutes, and will reboot the pc if a ping is not found, I get an error:

"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.",

when I try to run this bat file called "ping.bat":

@echo off
ping -n 1 -w 300000 www.google.com | find "could not find host" > null && call shutdown -r -t 0 -f
call ping.bat

any assistance will be greatly appreciated

[Stang02GT]

well since you are making a call to that bat file in this bat file, why would you need to run it separately?

Or am I misunderstanding?

[jg007]

Originally Posted by cnixuser

hi, I'm trying to get a bat file together that pings every 5 minutes, and will reboot the pc if a ping is not found, I get an error:

@echo off
ping -n 1 -w 300000 www.google.com | find "could not find host" > null && call shutdown -r -t 0 -f
call ping.bat

any assistance will be greatly appreciated

why not just use goto?

@echo off
:start
ping -n 1 -w 300000 www.google.com | find "could not find host" > null && call shutdown -r -t 0 -f
goto start

[jg007]

also you might want to look at vbscript as it is pretty easy and gives you more control

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_network_ping.html

[Stang02GT]

Originally Posted by jg007

also you might want to look at vbscript as it is pretty easy and gives you more control

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/vbstech_network_ping.html

Hey jg007,

I don't have MOD rights in this forum to change it but are you aware that you can actually insert a hyperlink into your posts?

Next time you go to post a link there is a picture of a planet(earth) at the top of the post box. If you use that it will set you through inserting a useable hyper link.

Just a note so that people don't have to copy and paste the url.

[Nepomuk]

Originally Posted by Stang02GT

I don't have MOD rights in this forum to change it but are you aware that you can actually insert a hyperlink into your posts?

Well, I do. ^^ So, I've added the URL tags. As Stang02GT said, please use them.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[Stang02GT]

Originally Posted by Nepomuk

Well, I do. ^^ So, I've added the URL tags. As Stang02GT said, please use them.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

Thank you Nepomuk!!!!!!!