package Win32::KillProcess; use 5.006; use strict; use warnings; use Win32::OLE; use Win32::OLE::Variant; require Exporter; use vars qw( @ISA %EXPORT_TAGS @EXPORT $VERSION ); @ISA = qw(Exporter); our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( 'all' => [ qw( connectServer killProcess startProcess showRunningProcess getProcessPids showRunningService getServicePids ) ] ); our @EXPORT_OK = ( @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{'all'} } ); $VERSION = '0.01'; sub connectServer { my ( $server, $username, $password ) = @_; $server ||= '.'; # localhost my $locator = Win32::OLE->new("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator") or die "Can't access WMI on local machine.", Win32::OLE->LastError; my $serverConn = $locator->ConnectServer($server, "root/cimv2", $username, $password) or die "Can't access WMI on remote machine $server: ", Win32::OLE->LastError; return $serverConn; } sub killProcess { my ( $serverConn, @pids ) = @_; return unless @pids; for my $pid( @pids ) { my $obj = $serverConn->Get( "Win32_Process.Handle=$pid" ) or do { print "Could not get an object handle for $pid: ", Win32::OLE->LastError; next }; my $retval = $obj->Terminate(); $retval && warn "Could not kill $pid: " . decode_error($retval); undef $obj; } } sub startProcess { my ( $serverConn, $exe, $startupFolder ) = @_; my $startClass = $serverConn->Get("Win32_Process") or die Win32::OLE->LastError; my $startConfig = $startClass->SpawnInstance_ ; my $pid = Variant(VT_I4|VT_BYREF, 0); my $retval = $startClass->Create( $exe, $startupFolder, undef, $pid ); if ( 0 == $retval ) { return $pid; } else { die "Could not start $exe errcode: " . decode_error($retval); } } sub decode_error { my %h = ( 1 => "Not Supported", 2 => "Access Denied", 3 => "Dependent Services Running", 4 => "Invalid Service Control", 5 => "Service Cannot Accept Control", 6 => "Service Not Active", 7 => "Service Request Timeout", 8 => "Unknown Failure", 9 => "Path Not Found", 10 => "Service Already Running", 11 => "Service Database Locked", 12 => "Service Dependency Deleted", 13 => "Service Dependency Failure", 14 => "Service Disabled", 15 => "Service Logon Failure", 16 => "Service Marked For Deletion", 17 => "Service No Thread", 18 => "Status Circular Dependency", 19 => "Status Duplicate Name", 20 => "Status Invalid Name", 21 => "Status Invalid Parameter", 22 => "Status Invalid Service Account", 23 => "Status Service Exists", 24 => "Service Already Paused", ); return $h{$_[0]} ? $h{$_[0]} : "Can't resolve error code $_[0]"; } sub showRunningService { my $serverConn = shift; my $serviceSet = $serverConn->ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE State="Running"') or die "Can't get process list from server: " . Win32::OLE->LastError; for my $service ( in $serviceSet ) { printf "%s\n\tPID: %-6d Start Mode: %s\n\n", $service->{Description}, $service->{ProcessId},$service->{StartMode}; } } sub showRunningProcess { my $serverConn = shift; my $processSet = $serverConn->ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM Win32_Process') or die "Can't get process list from server: ", Win32::OLE->LastError; for my $process ( in $processSet ) { printf "%-6d %s\n", $process->{ProcessId}, $process->{Description}; } } sub getServicePids { my ( $serverConn, $description ) = @_; $description = lc($description); my @pids; my $serviceSet = $serverConn->ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE State="Running"') or die "Can't get process list from server: ", Win32::OLE->LastError; for my $service ( in $serviceSet ) { push @pids, $service->{ProcessId} if $description eq lc($service->{Description}); } return @pids; } sub getProcessPids { my ( $serverConn, $description ) = @_; $description = lc($description); my @pids; my $processSet = $serverConn->ExecQuery('SELECT * FROM Win32_Process') or die "Can't get process list from server: ", Win32::OLE->LastError; for my $process ( in $processSet ) { push @pids, $process->{ProcessId} if $description eq lc($process->{Description}); } return @pids; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Win32::KillProcess - Perl extension for viewing and killing processes =head1 SYNOPSIS use Win32::KillProcess ':all'; # connect to localhost as logged in user $c = connectServer(); # connect to any server (local/remote) using username and password my $c = connectServer( $servername, $username, $password ); showRunningProcess($c); showRunningService($c); my @pids = getProcessPids( $c, 'wordpad.exe' ); killProcess( $c, @pids ); my $pid = startProcess( $c, "C:\\WINNT\\system32\\dllcache\\wordpad.exe" ); =head1 DESCRIPTION Win32::KillProcess lets you connect to a server (localhost or remote), view the running services and processes, get PIDs based on service/process name, and of course kill them dead. You can also start local or remote processes. For more details RTFS. This module uses Win32::OLE to talk to native Windows WMI which actually does the dirty work. =head2 EXPORT None by default. =head1 AUTHOR Dr James Freeman, Ejames.freeman@id3.org.uk =head1 SEE ALSO L. =cut