Re: Start a service, wait 10 seconds, and stop the service.

& is specific to unix shells. The Windows shell equivalent is start:

my $result = system("start C:\\Programme\\service.exe");
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Unforunately, start doesn't return the process id, so it's not too useful to you. It might be useful to other readers of this thread, though.

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Re^2: Start a service, wait 10 seconds, and stop the service. by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Jun 17, 2005 at 17:12 UTC
Indeed, thanks for clarifying that. Does no process id mean I can't stop the process without dying, as I would guess is the case?	[reply]
Re^3: Start a service, wait 10 seconds, and stop the service. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 17, 2005 at 17:41 UTC
It means you can't stop the process (with or without dying). To kill a process, you need to `kill` it, and `kill` requires the PID of the process to kill. See my other reply for working (tested) solution to your problem.	[reply] [d/l] [select]