Re: Execute command at shutdown

[Maurício <briqueabraque at yahoo dot com>]

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Maurício 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 :(

  Maurício


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