I am trying to start and stop a service with python. This used to work on an NT box but not on this 2003 server machine. (note- using "net stop myService" and net start myService" from the command line works just fine). The event viewer does tell me that a "Start command was sent to myService" but the service never starts.
------------------------------------------------------------------------- import win32serviceutil def service_control(service,action,machine='192.168.1.9'): if action == 'stop': try: win32serviceutil.StopService(service, machine) return('%s stopped successfully' % service) except: return ("Error stopping %s" % (service)) elif action == 'start': try: win32serviceutil.StartService(service, machine) return('%s started successfully' % service) except: return ("Error starting %s" % (service)) elif action == 'restart': try: win32serviceutil.RestartService(service, machine) return('%s restarted successfully' % service) except: return ("Error restarting %s" % (service)) elif action == 'status': if win32serviceutil.QueryServiceStatus(service, machine)[1] == 4: return("%s is running normally" % service) else: return("%s is *not* running" % service) if __name__ == '__main__': machine = '192.168.1.9' service = 'myService' action = 'start' print service_control(service,action,machine) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list