Starting Win32 Service

[placid]

Hi all,

Using Tim Golden's wmi module you can get the service names

import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
stopped_service s = c.Win32_Service (StartMode="Aut o", State="Stopped" )
if stopped_service s:
for s in stopped_service s:
print s.Caption, "service is not running"
else:
print "No auto services stopped"

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html#automatic_services

but how do i start services that are stopped?

Cheers

[Gabriel Genellina]

Re: Starting Win32 Service

At Wednesday 27/9/2006 01:39, placid wrote:

>Using Tim Golden's wmi module you can get the service names
>but how do i start services that are stopped?

Surely there are fancier ways:

>net start servicename

Gabriel Genellina
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[placid]

Re: Starting Win32 Service


Tim Golden wrote:

[placid]
| Using Tim Golden's wmi module you can get the service names
|
| import wmi
| c = wmi.WMI ()
| stopped_service s = c.Win32_Service (StartMode="Aut o", State="Stopped" )
| if stopped_service s:
| for s in stopped_service s:
| print s.Caption, "service is not running"
| else:
| print "No auto services stopped"
|
| but how do i start services that are stopped?
>
<code>
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
for method in c.Win32_Service ._methods:
print method
>
#
#... includes StartService
#
>
print c.Win32_Service .StartService
>
# <function StartService () =(ReturnValue)>
>
#
# Therefore, to start all non-running auto services (!)
#
for service in c.Win32_Service (StartMode="Aut o", State="Stopped" ):
print service.Caption
service.StartSe rvice ()
>
</code>
>
TJG
>

Thanks for that.

Now i was trying to use service.ChangeS tartMode but each time i pass in
an argument i get the error;

#TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

but;

>>print service.ChangeS tartMode

<function ChangeStartMode (StartMode) =(ReturnValue)>

ChangeStartMode needs an argument!

What im i doing wrong here?

Cheers

[placid]

Re: Starting Win32 Service


placid wrote:

Tim Golden wrote:

[placid]
| Using Tim Golden's wmi module you can get the service names
|
| import wmi
| c = wmi.WMI ()
| stopped_service s = c.Win32_Service (StartMode="Aut o", State="Stopped" )
| if stopped_service s:
| for s in stopped_service s:
| print s.Caption, "service is not running"
| else:
| print "No auto services stopped"
|
| but how do i start services that are stopped?

<code>
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
for method in c.Win32_Service ._methods:
print method

#
#... includes StartService
#

print c.Win32_Service .StartService

# <function StartService () =(ReturnValue)>

#
# Therefore, to start all non-running auto services (!)
#
for service in c.Win32_Service (StartMode="Aut o", State="Stopped" ):
print service.Caption
service.StartSe rvice ()

</code>

TJG

>
Thanks for that.
>
Now i was trying to use service.ChangeS tartMode but each time i pass in
an argument i get the error;
>
#TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
>
but;
>

>print service.ChangeS tartMode

<function ChangeStartMode (StartMode) =(ReturnValue)>
>
ChangeStartMode needs an argument!
>
What im i doing wrong here?

And to answer my own question, the way to pass in arguments is via the
key=value way so;

service.ChangeS tartMode(StartM ode = "Automatic" )

Cheers

P.S: Dont you just love trial and error/brute force?