Terminate/Close/Shutdown/Kill Server by code

[Shine]

hi,

How do you gracefull shutdown the server (winvnc.exe) from an other application?

I would like to start/kill the server as an user-process from my own application.

Is there a way to kill the server by a special command/message (postmessage) or commandline argument?

[YY]

You may use the DOS Cmd "Taskkill", like this:

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taskkill /F /IM winvnc.exe

[Shine]

hi,

thanks for your response.

if there is no way for a gracefull dead, then i use the pskill tool.
http://www.microsoft.com/germany/techne ... skill.mspx


taskkill is only available for XP and above (?).

[Shine]

hi,

i kill'em like this

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// try to kill softly
if (!postmessage (hWnd, WM_Close,0,0)) { 
  // try the big hammer
  hProcess = OpenProcess (processId, TERMINATE | SYNCHRONIZE));
  TerminateProcess (hProcess);
  CloseHandle (hProcess);
}

Works fine.

[Rudi De Vos]

winvnc.exe -kill


With the 104 RC , this work in application and service mode, at least when you are admin to run the winvnc.exe -kill.

Is it not working as you seems to look for another method ?

[Shine]

Hi,

if you execute "winvnc.exe -kill " you get this messagebox
---------------------------
WinVNC Usage
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winvnc [-run] [-autoreconnect[ ID:????]] [-connect host[:display]] [-connect host[::port]]

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OK
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-kill is unknown!?

But i am using the VNC-Server from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ultrav ... -Setup.exe

Is there any newer/older/special setup which contains a killable server?

[Rudi De Vos]

You need some later version was added in RC10 or RC11.

Latest exe can be found in

http://sc.uvnc.com/dev

[Shine]

hi,

thanks a lot.

Works fine.

[teacherwilli]

But the command -kill will cause a memory-read-error!!!
Why this?