Same thing. Code runs and I get nothing. That's really weird.
On Friday, February 17, 2017 at 3:06:47 PM UTC-5, akc...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I copied your code from playground. I will make that change and let you
> know.
>
>
> On Friday, February 17, 2017 at 2:07:38 PM UTC-5, Egon wrote:
>>
>> Is your code up to date?
>> What happens, if you do:
>> fmt.Println(service, err)
>> fmt.Println(service.Config())
>>
>> On Friday, 17 February 2017 20:42:00 UTC+2, akc...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> What's driving me crazy is that if I change the name of the service
>>> being passed to something like "thisdoesnotexist" I don't get an error. I
>>> would expect to see a error when it reaches this line in the function:
>>>
>>> service, err := manager.OpenService(name)
>>> if err != nil {
>>> return fmt.Errorf("service %s does not exist: %v", name, err)
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, February 17, 2017 at 11:42:24 AM UTC-5, Egon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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