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in thread Stopping Service with Win32::StopService

I know about net start, but I was wondering if there is a way I could check in the program itself, so it would check if its stopped to begin with and if so output a message otherwise attempt to stop it and if successful output a message saying it is stopped otherwise output an error message. Thanks for the help so far. Jason.
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Re^5: Stopping Service with Win32::StopService
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 01, 2008 at 03:41 UTC

    It's pretty simple to parse the output of the sc query servicename command: 

    C:\test>sc query pgsql-8.2

SERVICE_NAME: pgsql-8.2
        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        STATE              : 4  RUNNING
                                (STOPPABLE,PAUSABLE,ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0

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    You can also query this information using DBI, DBD::WMI and the bastardised WQL, but I find structure of WMI unfathomable and the documentation abysmal.

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