@Comspec not found??

[MFrancisca]

***By mistake I posted this in the General Developers and I can't find how to delete it, I'm sorry!!***

 

Sorry if this is a newbie question. I'm still learning quite a bit of AutoIT and I'm a confused.

Context: I'm developing a script that will be attached to a scheduled task. The script will run every 10 minutes and if the conditions are met it will stop a custom service, wait a second and start it again. 

My problem is when the script tries to stop the service: I'm using the following code: 

If($restart) Then
    $handlerstop = RunWait (@Comspec & "/c" & 'net stop GoldenEye.Handler')
    Sleep(1000)
    $handlerstart = RunWait (@Comspec & "/c" & 'net start GoldenEye.Handler')
    FileWriteLine($handler_log, $current_time&": Restarting Handler")
EndIf

 restart is a binary variable to check the condition. 

When I run the script, cmd.exe does not pop and I get @error=1 and @extended=2 . As far as I understand, the @extended macro stores the windows error code and a value of 2 means "file not found" . this means that for some reason AutoIt is not finding cmd.exe?? 

I did try running a ping command, to check if for some reason it was not finding the command, with the same results.

I'm running the script with a full admin account (IsAdmin() returns 1) so the net command executes without problem from a user command prompt. 

System is Windows 10 x64.

I've read the help files for Run, RunWait, RunAs, RunasWait and all the forum threads related to similar issues, and at this point I'm a bit dizzy... what I'm missing? 

Thanks! 

 

Francisca

[jchd]

Same answer here. Remarks on help about RunWait says:

To run DOS commands, try RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & "commandName")    ; don't forget " " before "/c"

[MFrancisca]

Thank you!! (saw the other thread before this one, please someone delete it!) 

Yes, I had missed that space character, now it works perfectly. 

I feel so stupid, but I'm learning and won't happen again, 

 

Thanks! 

[TurionAltec]

net.exe is it's own executable, and not a cmd.exe command, so calling @compspec does nothing but waste resources.

This should do it:

$handlerstop = RunWait ('net stop GoldenEye.Handler')