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Lycris
Lycris

Reputation: 21

Call logoff in Ant script

I am trying to call the logoff command from my build.xml. I tried several combinations in my ant target such as : 

<target name="bat">
<echo>Executing batch script</echo>
  <exec dir="C:\WINDOWS\system32" executable="cmd">
    <arg value="/c"/>
    <arg value="logoff"/>
  </exec>
</target>

But everytime, I get this error : "logoff is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"

I don't know how to fix this issue. Thanks for helping.

EDIT:

logoff.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="logoff" default="off" basedir=".">
    <target name="off">
        <exec executable="cmd">
            <arg value="/c"/> 
            <arg value="logoff"/>
        </exec>
    </target>
</project>

logoff_xml.bat:

@echo off
set ANT_HOME=W:\lib\org.apache.ant
set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_24 
set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin 
set BUILD_PATH=W:\logoff.xml 
set ANT=call ant -buildfile %BUILD_PATH% 
%ANT% 
pause

echo %PATH% (with buid.xml bat target)

[exec] C:\Outils\GPS_510\bin;C:\Outils\GNATPRO_6.1.2\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system3
2;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Outils\Python25;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\Program
Files (x86)\IBM\RationalSDLC\common;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\RationalSDLC\Cle
arCase\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\doxygen\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Syst
em32\Citrix\IMA;C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\System32\Citrix\IMA\Subsystems;C:\
WINDOWS\System32\Citrix\IMA;C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\system32;C:\Program Fi
les (x86)\commonfiles\Citrix\System32\;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;c:\outils\cygw
in\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\commonfiles
\Citrix\System32;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin;lib\org.apache.an
t\bin

EDIT : When I launch logoff with Ant, I got :

[exec] Disconnecting
[exec] "logoff.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 436

Answers (3)

thekbb
thekbb

Reputation: 7924

I cannot possibly imagine why anyone would ever do this in a build script.

Please don't do this.

But if you do, don't exec cmd.exe - call logoff.exe directly

<project name="logoff" default="logoff" basedir=".">
    <target name="logoff">
        <exec executable="logoff" />
    </target>
</project>

It's a very safe assumption that logoff.exe is on %PATH%, if for some reason it's not, set a property to get the absolute path to logoff.exe;

<project name="logoff" default="logoff" basedir=".">
    <property name="system32.dir" location="C:\Windows\System32" />        

    <target name="logoff">
        <exec executable="${system32.dir}\logoff" />
    </target>
</project>

I feel dirty for having typed this.

Upvotes: 1

Dusan Plavak
Dusan Plavak

Reputation: 4579

You should remove that dir atribute.... This is working for me:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <project name="logoff" default="default" basedir=".">
        <target name="default">
        <exec executable="cmd">
            <arg value="/c"/>
            <arg value="logoff"/>
        </exec> 
    </target>
    </project>

EDIT:

@echo off
set ANT_HOME=W:\lib\org.apache.ant
set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin 
set BUILD_PATH=W:\logoff.xml 
set ANT=call ant -buildfile %BUILD_PATH% 
%ANT% 
pause

Upvotes: 0

pkk
pkk

Reputation: 3701

Try using shutdown /l /f instead, as suggested here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/how-to-force-logoff-from-command-line/8e7507e0-12c8-4ac7-8d5e-a1917e4af997

This might also help (description how to do it in java) as ant uses similar (to java) arguments:

Shutdown Windows with Java

Upvotes: 0

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