End server bat through scheduler?

[tall solar]

I have a little server completely dedicated only to running my PZ server for my friends and I.
Unfortunately, every day it becomes unresponsive and needs to be restarted.
I'm looking for a way to set up a .bat for the windows task scheduler to end the server every day at a certain time. I already have the scheduler set up to run the server at a certain time every day, but it ends up just doing a duplicate of the process.

Could anyone who has any experience with this sort of thing give me some quick code I could slap into a .bat and call it a day?

Currently my server "starts" at 10AM every day, I'd like to have it quit out at 9:58AM

[wooden garnet]

you'll likely want to use RCON to send a quit command to kill the server properly, but if you really just want to end it, you can use Taskkill like Taskkill /IM java.exe /F

or for powershell you can use 'Stop-Process' cmdlet

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/taskkill

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/stop-process?view=powershell-7.4

but rcon quit would be better because it would save first

[tall solar]

so I actually had my bat set up with that exact line already, but I noticed it just ends java but keeps the bat open, and the other bat opens as a new window. I think with that setup it'll just end up opening a new window every day unless I manually close out the other windows, is there a way to make the windows close after the java process is killed?

[idle lava]

If the server is unresponsive will it take the rcon command?

[wooden garnet]

yes, kill the cmd.exe as well

you should first get the pid of your current cmd.exe though and kill all the other ones

otherwise you might kill your killer 😐

i guess you could also set the window title to something specific to kill

in your server batch file you can set windowname to be 'zomboid' or something and then when you taskkill just target windowtitle zomboid

[wooden garnet]

if it's unresponsive then no need to worry about it quitting properly, as it also won't save in that case

[tall solar]

how would you word that? I currently have:

TASKKILL /IM windowtitle ZomboidServer /F

but that doesn't do anything

[wooden garnet]

Is that the name of the other batch files window?

You have to set the window title name in your server launch batch