Please make life easy for the editors and read the site how to especially the section on "Submitting Code and Escaping Characters".

And make life easy for yourself and download Win32::AdminMisc from the website of brother monk dada.

In particular look at the ExitWindows($Flag);function available in that module.

The shutdown.exe widget lets you do this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
`shutdown.exe \\\\some_systems_unc_name`
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There are a range of options to reboot, force closuer of open programs, print a text message set timeout, etc.

Shutdown.exe is not part of the standard Windows distribution but is widely available on the net for free and as part of the M$ resource kits if you want to pay for it ;-). It is handy in that you can call it from a batch file, schedule with AT etc + perl not required (horrors).

cheers

tachyon

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Thanks all!but I want a reboot script for use Win32::API on windows2000.Call help!Bottoms up!and vb example under: ###################################################### Reboots a Windows 2000 PC. Many examples shell to the kernel and just kill the PC. This does it properly and takes into account a user privilages. 'API Calls used for RebootPC Private Const TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES = &H20 Private Const TOKEN_QUERY = &H8 Private Const SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED = &H2 Private Const EWX_SHUTDOWN As Long = 1 Private Const EWX_FORCE As Long = 4 Private Const EWX_REBOOT = 2 Private Type LUID 　UsedPart As Long 　IgnoredForNowHigh32BitPart As Long End Type Private Type TOKEN_PRIVILEGES 　PrivilegeCount As Long 　TheLuid As LUID 　Attributes As Long End Type Private Declare Function ExitWindowsEx Lib "user32" (ByVal dwOptions As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long Private Declare Function GetCurrentProcess Lib "kernel32" () As Long Private Declare Function OpenProcessToken Lib "advapi32" (ByVal ProcessHandle As Long, ByVal DesiredAccess As Long, TokenHandle As Long) As Long Private Declare Function LookupPrivilegeValue Lib "advapi32" Alias "LookupPrivilegeValueA" (ByVal lpSystemName As String, ByVal lpName As String, lpLuid As LUID) As Long Private Declare Function AdjustTokenPrivileges Lib "advapi32" (ByVal TokenHandle As Long, ByVal DisableAllPrivileges As Long, NewState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, ByVal BufferLength As Long, PreviousState As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES, ReturnLength As Long) As Long Sub RebootPC() 　On Local Error GoTo RebootPC_ErrorHandler 　Const csProcName = "RebootPC" 　 　Dim hProcessHandle As Long 　Dim hTokenHandle As Long 　Dim tmpLuid As LUID 　Dim tkpNew As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES 　Dim tkpPrevious As TOKEN_PRIVILEGES 　Dim lBufferNeeded As Long 　hProcessHandle = GetCurrentProcess() 　Call OpenProcessToken(hProcessHandle, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES Or TOKEN_QUERY, hTokenHandle) ' Get the LUID for the shutdown privilege 　Call LookupPrivilegeValue("", "SeShutdownPrivilege", tmpLuid) 　tkpNew.PrivilegeCount = 1 ' One privilege to set 　tkpNew.TheLuid = tmpLuid 　tkpNew.Attributes = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED ' Enable the shutdown privilege in the access token of this process. 　lBufferNeeded = 0 　Call AdjustTokenPrivileges(hTokenHandle, False, tkpNew, Len(tkpPrevious), tkpPrevious, lBufferNeeded) ' Force a Reboot (no option to save files to cancel out) 　Call ExitWindowsEx(EWX_FORCE Or EWX_REBOOT, &HFFFF) 　Exit Sub RebootPC_ErrorHandler: 　Call RaiseError(csModName, csProcName, Err.Number, Err.Description) End Sub ########################################################## Thank you!

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