Try this: https://play.golang.org/p/b5EPbHD6Bm
I'm guessing you are getting "Access Denied" and not seeing the error.
+ Egon
On Friday, 17 February 2017 18:07:34 UTC+2, akc...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I've just started learning the language and went through some of the
> packages that deal with file operations and that went well. Has anyone had
> experience with starting and stopping windows services? I went and ran a go
> get on package: "golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc/mgr". Looking around and
> that seems like the correct package to be using? I wanted to do a simple
> program to start the Printer Spooler service a windows 7 machine as a test
> but I seem to be striking out.
>
> package main
>
> import (
> "golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc/mgr"
> "fmt"
> )
>
>
> func startService(name string) error {
> m, err := mgr.Connect()
> if err != nil {
> return fmt.Errorf("Cannot connect to manager %v", err)
> }
> defer m.Disconnect()
> s, err := m.OpenService(name)
> if err != nil {
> return fmt.Errorf("service %s does not exist", name)
> }
> defer s.Close()
> s.Start()
> if err != nil {
> return fmt.Errorf("could not start the service: %v", err)
> }
> return nil
> }
>
>
> func main() {
> startService("Spooler")
> }
>
>
>
> If anyone has any examples or point out what I'm doing wrong I'd
> appreciate it. Thanks in advance!
>
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