Responding to prompts in bat file with a twist

[eppack]

I have a bat file to stop/start my message queuing. Since the MSMQ triggers are dependent on queuing being there, it will ask me if I really want to do this, and waits for a "Y". Not sure of the syntax to suppress or auto answer this prompt. Tried /Q and an echo pipe but neither worked. Here's the bat file (and the message is at the first command:

net stop MSMQ
timeout 3
net start MSMQ
timeout 3
net start "Message Queuing Triggers"

TIA!

elaine
ivy, va

[Salmon Trout]

You tried this? (pipe?)

1. echo a y character through a pipe

echo y | net stop whatever
echo y | net start whatever

if so, try this, redirecting a file to console input

echo y > yes.txt
net stop whatever < yes.txt
net start whatever < yes.txt

You will appreciate that you really only need to make yes.txt once, and I leave you to guess what might be in no.txt...

[eppack]

I tried both methods, Salmon Trout, but in both cases (and just on the remote chance they are case sensitive, tried that too)  they throw:

Do you want to continue this operation? (Y/N) [N]:
No valid response was provided.

Thanks,
elaine

[oldun]

Have you tried it with a different switch, such as:

net stop MSMQ /y

[eppack]

We have a winner, Oldun!! That works great! Thank you!

I didn't see that as a switch on the net command--is that undocumented?

Cheers!

elaine
ivy, va