Erik Myllymaki wrote:
> 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)
Answering my own question - seems to work i you do not specify machine name:
win32serviceutil.StartService(service)
instead of
win32serviceutil.StartService(service, machine)
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