Using IIS6 to run kill process. Executable hangs
- by David
I'm using the following code (any tried many variations) in a web page that is supposed to kill a process on the server:
Process scriptProc = new Process();
SecureString password = new SecureString();
password.AppendChar('p');
password.AppendChar('s');
password.AppendChar('s');
password.AppendChar('w');
password.AppendChar('d');
scriptProc.StartInfo.UserName = "mylocaluser";
scriptProc.StartInfo.Password = password;
scriptProc.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\WINDOWS\System32\WScript.exe";
scriptProc.StartInfo.Arguments = @"c:\windows\system32\killMyApp.vbs";
scriptProc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
scriptProc.Start();
scriptProc.WaitForExit();
scriptProc.Close();
The VBS file is supposed to kill a w3wp.exe process, but never works. There are no errors in the application log. It works locally.
I noticed WScript.exe is in task manager every time I run the page, and never goes away.
The process WScript.exe (and I tried others such a psexec.exe) is being run as a local user with admin rights (and I tried other types of users including domain admins) when run from IIS, but it works when run from the command line on the server.
