need help with a script

[Pandora]

so i am a complete programing and such noob, other than basic if than stuff in python i know nothing. for the first time in a long time i have found my self in need of a script.

i run a few game servers for a game that went down a few weeks ago (mirage arcane warfare) and the server tool is total trash. it needs to be launched via a shortcut with launch options, more than one instance cannot be run per os, there is no logging feature or even a basic cmd prompt window to tell me if its running.

in order for me to know the server is running i need to check the task manager, and in order to shut down the server i need to kill it via task manager (legit this is the only way).

now this wouldnt be a problem if i could just press run and let it go but because the server software is such garbage the server starts to have issues after 12 hours and becomes completely unusable after 24 and as such needs to be killed and relaunched.

 

i have no idea how to do this other than manually, i don't even know where to find the resources to find out. i assume something with autohotkey would work but i don't know how to use that.

 

if i could get some direction that would be awesome.

 

[Guest]

I read over this a few times, and I don't quite understand what you're trying to say.

 

From what I can understand is:

 

You have this service that you can only terminate through task manager and you can only kill it in task manager.

 

You want a script that you can click and kill the service?
 

If so, try this in notepad and save as .bat (batch file):

 

taskkill /F /FI "SERVICES eq yourservice"

 

Cheers

[Pandora]

2 minutes ago, Netivity said:

I read over this a few times, and I don't quite understand what you're trying to say.

 

From what I can understand is:

 

You have this service that you can only terminate through task manager and you can only kill it in task manager.

 

You want a script that you can click and kill the service?
 

If so, try this in notepad and save as .bat (batch file):

 

taskkill /F /FI "SERVICES eq yourservice"

 

Cheers

thank you, thats kinda what i was looking for. i didnt realize that you could kill programs from notepad. ill do my homework and try to figure out how i can use it to relaunch the program and how i can get it to work on a timer or something.

[BeefyMeats]

I would just create a scheduled task to run a batch file

:loop
start "c:\blaablaa\shittyProgram.exe -parameters"
timeout /t 36000 && taskkill /f /im shittyProgram.exe
timeout /t 30

goto loop

 

[vorticalbox]

1 hour ago, BeefyMeats said:

I would just create a scheduled task to run a batch file

:loop
start "c:\blaablaa\shittyProgram.exe -parameters"
timeout /t 36000 && taskkill /f /im shittyProgram.exe
timeout /t 30

goto loop

 

I would set up a cron rather than asking a batch file to sleep. 

 

Kill the server and then reopen.