in reply to starting a win2000-service with delay


You can use the Win32::Service to start and stop services in your system.
This is a small script to get you started.
use Win32::Service; #set up a hash of known service states my %statcodeHash = ( '1' => 'stopped.', '2' => 'start pending.', '3' => 'stop pending.', '4' => 'running.', '5' => 'continue pending.', '6' => 'pause pending.', '7' => 'paused.' ); my %serviceHash; #Win32::Service::StartService("", <some service>); #go get 'em... Win32::Service::GetServices("", \%serviceHash); foreach $key(keys %serviceHash) { my %statusHash; Win32::Service::GetStatus("", "$key", \%statusHash); #print "$statusHash{\"CurrentState\"} \n"; if ($statusHash{"CurrentState"} =~ /[1-7]/) { print $serviceHash{"$key"} . " is currently " . $statcodeHas +h{$statusHash{"CurrentState"}} . "\n"; } }
Use the sleep command for the delay, If you want to start the service after sometime.
Win32::Service

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