Execute command at shutdown
Maurício
briqueabraque@yahoo.com
Sun Jul 2 16:53:00 GMT 2006
Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, MaurÃcio wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible, using some cygwin functionality, to tell Windows to
>>execute a command at shutdown? For instance, I would like to have:
>>
>>ipconfig.exe /release
>>
>>executed everytime I shutdown Windows, since I need that to avoid
>>problems with my cable provider when using dual-boot. How can I do that?
>
>
> One thing that comes to mind is a program that invokes the command you
> want on SIGHUP, installed as a service with cygrunsrv that will terminate
> at shutdown, with HUP as the termination signal. Beware, though, that
> services have a certain period of time in which to stop, after which the
> service process will be terminated by Windows.
>
> If I were you, I'd look into using the Windows hooks for this, instead.
> HTH,
> Igor
>
I am not able to find those Windows hooks :(
MaurÃcio
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