I realize this post is old, but there’s no marked solution and I just wanted to throw in how I resolved this. The first Error 5: Access Denied error was resolved by giving permissions to the output directory to the NETWORK SERVICE account. The second Started and then stopped error seems to be a generic … Read more
You can use the services console, clicking on the left hand side and then selecting the “Connect to another computer” option in the Action menu. If you wish to use the command line only, you can use sc \\machine stop <service>
You could use following P/Invoke calls to achieve this. Below sample works only with Admin Rights [DllImport(“wtsapi32.dll”, SetLastError = true)] static extern bool WTSLogoffSession(IntPtr hServer, int SessionId, bool bWait); [DllImport(“Wtsapi32.dll”)] static extern bool WTSQuerySessionInformation( System.IntPtr hServer, int sessionId, WTS_INFO_CLASS wtsInfoClass, out System.IntPtr ppBuffer, out uint pBytesReturned); [DllImport(“wtsapi32.dll”, SetLastError = true)] static extern IntPtr WTSOpenServer([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] String … Read more
I wrote a blog post on how to do this using P/Invoke. Using the ServiceHelper class from my post you can do the following to change the Start Mode. var svc = new ServiceController(“ServiceNameGoesHere”); ServiceHelper.ChangeStartMode(svc, ServiceStartMode.Automatic);
I have gone through all the pain of doing this. Under windows 7/Vista/2008 it is not possible to load any interactive process from a service – without calling a number of Win API. = BLACK MAGIC Have a look here and here. The code below does the trick, use it with your own risk: public … Read more
There is also this approach seen on SuperUser which uses the sc command line instead of modifying the registry: sc config <service name> binPath= <binary path> Note: the space after binPath= is important. You can also query the current configuration using: sc qc <service name> This displays output similar to: [SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS SERVICE_NAME: ServiceName … Read more
The easiest solution I found for this so far is the Non-Sucking Service Manager Usage would be nssm install <servicename> “C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\java.exe” “-jar <path-to-jar-file>”
You can do this via PInvoke to SetStdHandle: [DllImport(“Kernel32.dll”, SetLastError = true) ] public static extern int SetStdHandle(int device, IntPtr handle); // in your service, dispose on shutdown.. FileStream filestream; StreamWriter streamwriter; void Redirect() { int status; IntPtr handle; filestream = new FileStream(“logfile.txt”, FileMode.Create); streamwriter = new StreamWriter(filestream); streamwriter.AutoFlush = true; Console.SetOut(streamwriter); Console.SetError(streamwriter); handle = … Read more
An MSI is a Windows Installer database. Windows Installer (a service installed with Windows) uses this to install software on your system (i.e. copy files, set registry values, etc…). A setup.exe may either be a bootstrapper or a non-msi installer. A non-msi installer will extract the installation resources from itself and manage their installation directly. … Read more
in C#: var sc = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController(“MyService”, “MyRemoteMachine”); sc.Start(); sc.WaitForStatus(System.ServiceProcess.ServiceControllerStatus.Running); sc.Stop(); sc.WaitForStatus(System.ServiceProcess.ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped);