Sysinternals/Pstools/pssuspend

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pssuspend

Description

PsSuspend is part of the PsTools toolkit developed by Sysinternals. PsSuspend suspends or resumes processes on local or remote NT system.

Installation

PsShutdown is part of the PsTools suite. To install it, please refer to this section.

Usage

Syntax

Usage: pssuspend [-r] [\\RemoteComputer [-u Username [-p Password]]] <process Id or name>

Options

-r

Resume.

-u

Specifies optional user name for login to remote computer.

-p

Specifies optional password for user name. If you omit this you will be prompted to enter a hidden password.

Example

Let's identify the process ID on the remote machine that corresponds to the httpd (apache) service:

C:\pstools>pslist \\192.168.1.27 -u pilou -p oopsoops | find "http" 

pslist v1.3 - Sysinternals PsList
Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

httpd               584   8   4  140  38016     0:00:01.968     0:06:28.651
httpd              1996   8 153  289  41300     0:00:02.015     0:06:24.651

Let's suspend the process:

C:\pstools>pssuspend \\192.168.1.27 -u pilou -p oopsoops 1996

PsSuspend v1.06 - Process Suspender
Copyright ® 2001-2003 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals

Process 1996 on suspended 192.168.1.27....

Now let's resume the process:

C:\pstools>pssuspend -r \\192.168.1.27 -u pilou -p oopsoops 1996

PsSuspend v1.06 - Process Suspender
Copyright ® 2001-2003 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals

Process 1996 on resumed 192.168.1.27....