[users at bb.net] Killing a windows task(process) using taskkill from the shellcommand

[Greg MacDonald]

Hi Honas,

Try it without the /c. taskkill and timeout are a executables so I don't think you need the /c form. 

Isn't it funny how visual studio doesn't even work well with itself? :) This works for me:

command=['taskkill', '/f', '/im', 'mspdbsrv.exe'],

In case you need to use /c for something:

command=['cmd.exe', '/c', 'del /s *.pak *.key *.cfg *.manifest *.pak.solid']

Notice the last string isn't broken up so everything after the /c will be quoted.

-Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: users [mailto:users-bounces at buildbot.net] On Behalf Of Dan Kegel
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 8:57 AM
To: honas grael
Cc: users at buildbot.net
Subject: Re: [users at bb.net] Killing a windows task(process) using taskkill from the shellcommand

FWIW, I invoke a script for my build steps, and it has the line taskkill /F /IM mspdbsrv.exe /T
in it.  Works great.   While it may seem strange to put
the build logic in a script (or batch file) rather than in build steps, it sure makes debugging easier.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 8:28 AM, honas grael <honasgraeymael at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I don't know if i'm doing it worng but I have an executable task that 
> I want to kill at the end of my build.
>
> It seems easy enough to start the executable using something along the 
> lines of
>
> factory.addStep(steps.ShellCommand(
>
> command=["run_my_custom_executable.exe","config_file_for_executable.txt"],
>               logfiles={"triallog": {"filename": "c:\\temp\\test.log",
>                    HaltOnFailure=True))
>
> I want to kill that executable, so I have tried
>
> factory.addStep(steps.ShellCommand(command=["cmd /c taskkill /im 
> run_my_custom_executable.exe /f /t]))
>
> but no joy so far, though the command works fine when I type it 
> directly into the Windows command shell.
>
>
> Also I wanted to introduce a time delay between steps so I thought I'd 
> use the Windows timeout shell command
>
>
> factory.addStep(steps.ShellCommand(command=["cmd /k timeout 30 
> /nobreak]))
>
> What am i missing?
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
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