Restart a program hourly? Task?

[KingCollins]

Hey guys, just a quick one.

 

I have uTorrent running on a server of mine. It's currently using a SOCK5 proxy but looses connection if its been dormant for over an hour. Its fixed by restarting the program.

 

Is there a way I can make like a cron job so that the program is killed/started on an hourly basis?

 

This would be on Windows 7 

 

Thanks guys!

[Guest]

You can create a batch file to kill a specific process: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33822/any-way-to-write-a-windows-bat-file-to-kill-processes

 

Then you can put the batch file in Task Scheduler

 

To start the program just do it in Task Scheduler

[Pattycake]

:loop
start yourprogram.exe
timeout /t 3600
taskkill /im yourprogram.exe /f
goto loop

 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13515254/how-to-set-a-timeout-for-a-process-under-windows-7

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Wouldn't it make more sense to solve the problem rather than covering up the symptom?  Find out why uTorrent is crashing and fix that, or switch programs all together?

[KingCollins]

Thanks @Pattycake and @deXxterlab97 for the replies. I will try those solutions.

 

To be honest @Ryan_Vickers , I think its a problem with my VPN client! I think it expires my session when no traffic has been passed through in "X" minutes. I would of course like to fix the issue, because if there is a torrent mid-way downloading and uTorrent restarts, it has to "re-check" what it has downloaded which can take a decade 

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1 minute ago, KingCollins said:

Thanks @Pattycake and @deXxterlab97 for the replies. I will try those solutions.

 

To be honest @Ryan_Vickers , I think its a problem with my VPN client! I think it expires my session when no traffic has been passed through in "X" minutes. I would of course like to fix the issue, because if there is a torrent mid-way downloading and uTorrent restarts, it has to "re-check" what it has downloaded which can take a decade 

Yeah that definitely can be annoying on larger ones, so that's just one more reason to try to find a better solution

[KingCollins]

6 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah that definitely can be annoying on larger ones, so that's just one more reason to try to find a better solution

Totally agree, for now this aggressive kill/start batch file will have to do.

 

I guess its time to contact customer support! Oh the joys 

[Mira Yurizaki]

21 minutes ago, KingCollins said:

Thanks @Pattycake and @deXxterlab97 for the replies. I will try those solutions.

 

To be honest @Ryan_Vickers , I think its a problem with my VPN client! I think it expires my session when no traffic has been passed through in "X" minutes. I would of course like to fix the issue, because if there is a torrent mid-way downloading and uTorrent restarts, it has to "re-check" what it has downloaded which can take a decade 

Can you do something like ping Google or generate some kind of network traffic every five minutes?