RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart

[Steven D. P. <st...@do...>]

the main use for this, is to distribute applications after the inital
roll out.
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My first attempt was to create an asp page that created the remote
process on the clients machine running the mapznrun program under its
context, but microsoft has put a stop to that by not allowing the
spawned process to interact with the desktop.
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Second  was to get it to produce an AT job (which does allow the job to
interact with the desktop) but relies heaverly on the times being
Identical (issue in its own right) plus the job would have to be
scheduled upto 60 secs in the future (problem for users)
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Third is to use the mapznrun in its native enviroment, but this can also
cause problems. i.e. if a user ctrl breaks while the todo.pl is running
they are sitting there with a admin logon in front of them (NOT GOOD)
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you can not script the RUNAS command as you say so that, is a no go the
idea is to allow the users to install applications if they need to.
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Cheers
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Steve
(01908) 580623
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	-----Original Message-----
	From: Adm...@ma...
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	Sent: 11 November 2003 14:40
	To: una...@li...
	Subject: RE: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart
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	I do something similar, but I have a shutdown script make the
registry change, the system has permission to change the registry.  In
my case it is triggered by a change to a central database (a grand name
for  a shared ini file), however you could use any trigger you like.
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	as an alternative, if you are at the machine, have you tried
running the script using RUNAS and your admin credentials?
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	Regards
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	Kevin Lawry

		-----Original Message-----
		From: Steven D. Pretlove [mailto:st...@do...]
		Sent: 11 November 2003 14:17
		To: una...@li...
		Subject: [Unattended] Todo.pl -- Restart
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		Hi all,
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		when todo.pl processes .reboot (or one of its
variations) it places the run command in the HKCU Run reg key
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		I have need to set the computer to logon as a
administrator (using autolog.pl), reboot the machine, log on as admin,
install program, clear autologon and then finally reboot.
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		all the above I can do quite successfully, once I
manually kick of the todo.pl --go after the initial reboot and logon as
admin
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		does anyone else do something like this if so how did
you get round the problem ???
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		my initial thoughts is to write a bat file to the
allusers/start-up directory to run the "mapznrun.bat z:\bin\todo.pl
--go" command and then clear it out at the end. much the same as the
current method, just allowing for anyuser to logon afterwards and the
command to still run.
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		other thoughts included changing the reg key from HKCU
to HKLM but users by default do not have write permission
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		All advice greatly appreciated
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