Help with restarting a script.

[marculito]

Hi, I need some help. Have searched the forum but not found anything.

What I would like to do with this script that logs systeminfo, such as running processes is to have it to restart say like once every hour so that I can get the logs sent to me every hour. Will use it as a tool to monitor our computers to detect unusual services such as running trojans and other type of malware. But instead of manually checking each and other computer I will have it send the logs to our fileserver.

But I can't seem to find out how to make the script restart itself every hour.

Now, some might ask why I want it to send every hour and that it will be a lot of logs and yes, but I have another script on the server that centrally checks these logs for changes, so if there is a new service running in one computer it will notify me

Here's the script that I need help with to get restarting every hour.

_SysInfoLog_v2.07.au3

[JohnOne]

Well if you are going to write a script to run a script, you might as well

just have a function in the main script to execute every hour.

See AdLibRegister() <- helpfile.

Or use windows task scheduler.

[water]

Why do you want to restart your script.

Use AdLibRegister to run a function every hour. This function closes the file and sends it to the file share, then reopens it.

I would do it the other way round. Have a list of "allowed" processes in a file on the fileshare. Read this file every hour by the client and check the running processes in a short interval (every minute). If you find a process which isn't allowed send a messge to the admin.

This way an invalid process is much faster identified and you can act much faster.

[marculito]

Why do you want to restart your script.

Use AdLibRegister to run a function every hour. This function closes the file and sends it to the file share, then reopens it.

I would do it the other way round. Have a list of "allowed" processes in a file on the fileshare. Read this file every hour by the client and check the running processes in a short interval (every minute). If you find a process which isn't allowed send a messge to the admin.

This way an invalid process is much faster identified and you can act much faster.

That's a good idea I'm new to all this about AutoIt but learning every day So thanks for the tip.

/ Marculito

[water]

This approach has the advantage that the processing is distributed and that you can act much faster when a new unwanted process shows up.

Like all the virus scanners do. Get the virus database from a central server and do the processing on each machine.