This is another of those things that using the system utilities is just so much simpler:

system q[ net start "service name" ];
system q[ net stop "service name" ];
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Thanks a lot BrowserUk for your solution. I am able to get desired output succesfully with ur comments. I would also like to enhance my this script. I would now like to go to remote level, I mean to say I would like to Start / Stop service running on other machine, by running script on my desktop machine. Can you please help me wayout?

I agree with marto. sc.exe is the right tool for the job if your administering services on remote machines.

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Did you look at the help for the net command? Did you search google? Perhaps the sc command is also of interest. Note that sc comes as standard on xp, Windows 2003 (and I believe above), it may be on one of the resource CDs for windows 2000/NT4

Martin

meet_arc,

Take a look at the Win32::Service module.

Hope this helps

Martin

Thnx Martin for replying. Can you please provide me a small sample script?

What code have you written and how does it fail for you?

Perlmonks is not a code writing service, so please show us what efforts you've made and where you encountered problems.