pgg1
17th June 2008 12:00 UTC

Starting and stopping services
Hi

I want to be able to start/stop a service in windows. The service is a phone service that I have installed myself.

The problem I am having is that the service does not start or stop using the following snippet of code.

Starting:

  ReadEnvStr $0 COMSPEC
  nsExec::Exec '$0 net start PhoneService'
  Pop $0
  MessageBox MB_OK "$0"

Stopping;

  nsExec::Exec '$0 net stop PhoneService'
  Pop $0
  MessageBox MB_OK "$0"

The installation of the service went ok because you can see it in the services table, where it's set to auto. Hence, the need to stop/start.

Any ideas?

Cheers

pgg1
17th June 2008 13:06 UTC

Concrete Example
This example should stop/start the windows service w32time (e.g. Windows Time).

outFile "installer.exe"
installDir $DESKTOP

section
   setOutPath $INSTDIR
   writeUninstaller $INSTDIR\uninstaller.exe
sectionEnd

section "Stop Windows Time Properties."

  ReadEnvStr $0 COMSPEC
  nsExec::Exec '$0 net stop w32time'
  MessageBox MB_OK '$0 net stop w32time'
  Pop $0
  MessageBox MB_OK "$0"
  
sectionEnd

section "uninstall"

  delete $INSTDIR\uninstaller.exe
  
  # Start Windows Time Properties.
  ReadEnvStr $0 COMSPEC
  nsExec::Exec '$0 net start w32time'
  MessageBox MB_OK '$0 net start w32time'
  Pop $0
  MessageBox MB_OK "$0"
  
sectionEnd

However, the above code does not stop or start the service. What am I doing wrong?

Can somebody please help me.

Thanks.

{_trueparuex^}
17th June 2008 13:54 UTC

I recommend using one of the service plug-ins to stop or start services. :)

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/How_do_I...heck_a_service

Yathosho
17th June 2008 16:21 UTC

i wasn't aware the necessity of using ReadEnvStr. i use just this command and had no problems so far. does the user have permission to stop services maybe?

nsExec::Exec 'net.exe STOP "wscsvc"'

pgg1
19th June 2008 15:35 UTC

Thanks guys.

Afrow UK
19th June 2008 16:13 UTC

I would use the SimpleSC plug-in and remove the dependency on net.exe to function.

Stu