code aside, I would think this process would work:

add a line to your startup.bat files that says run this inventory.pl script found at \\server\where\script\lives

Then when the client computer runs the script it has said "Here!" and at that point have inventory.pl get the required info (either through a subroutine or have inventory.pl invoke YAS (yet another script.))

The disadvantages to this are (As Dave Roth has pointed out in WIN32 Perl Scripting :: Sys Admins) that at 8AM when your users login there will be some strain on your server as they all start hitting that script all at once.

Pie, like lunch is (sadly) never free

The flip side to this would be to have startup.bat INSTALL the inventory script and then your startup.bat file could if/then the next time it was run the inventory process.

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In reply to Re: Laziness and the Win32::Daemon by ellem
in thread Laziness and the Win32::Daemon by Macphisto

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