Best thing i know to do would be to program how many times you want it to reboot, then write the reboot attempt number to a file on the boot partition. psuedocode 

use warnings;
use strict;

open $my file, '<', "C:/reboot_attempts";

read $file, my $reboot_number, 1;

if ($reboot_number == 0){
    open my $file, '>', 'reboot_attempts';
    print $file '1';
    close $file;
    #reboot machine;
}
if ($reboot_number == 1){
    open my $file, '>', 'reboot_attempts';
    print $file '2';
    close $file;
    #reboot machine;
}
if ($reboot_number == 2){
    open my $file, '>', 'reboot_attempts';
    print $file '3';
    close $file;
    #reboot machine;
}
if ($reboot_number == 3){
    open my $file, '>', 'reboot_attempts';
    print $file '4';
    close $file;
    #reboot machine;
}
if ($reboot_number == 4){
    open my $file, '>', 'reboot_attempts';
    print $file '5';
    close $file;
    #reboot machine;
}
if ($reboot_number == 5){
    open my $file, '>', 'reboot_attempts';
    print $file '0';
    #exit;
}

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I am sure this can be improved greatly, but if you put in there the reboot code, it should be ok. The key is to set this up as a task that will run on boot. so you may need to use a batch file to run the script, or even make the script into an exe. Otherwise i am unsure on how you would actually execute the code on boot

In reply to Re: Create a folder/file and reboot the machine and check for the created file/folder on the location. by james28909
in thread reboot a system (machine or server) multiple times with perl script by irthiza90

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