Thank you very much for your suggestion! I am looking into vbscript now.
I have no experience with it yet so any example you could give would be much
appreciated. Like how exactly to program it and where to place the file, how
to hand it to the cluster, etc. Anything is useful. :)
"Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > You can create a generic script in VB-scripting, and program a delay in the
> online() entry point, that way the online() is called but will not return
> until done.
>
> that should do it
>
> rgds,
> Edwin.
>
>
> "Metallion98" <Metallion98[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3693317F-1545-4442-8787-96B8ABB2FDC0[ at ]microsoft.com...
> > What I want to do is delay one service for about a minute before it
> autostarts.
> >
> > Just creating a new dependency service that runs a .bat file with sleep in
> > it doesn't work. The cluster sees the batch file as started and just
> starts
> > the other service while the batch is sleeping.
> >
> > I think I thought about was to make my service dependent of a dummy
> service
> > and not let the cluster autostart the dummy. Then I could run a batch file
> > that sleeps and afterwards starts the dummy. Then the service I want
> started
> > will see that the dummy is up and finally autostart itself, but for this
> it
> > must be possible to make a dependency that's not autostarted. Is this
> > possible?
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
>
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