SC.exe & Autoit problem

[Merrik]

Hi,

I am having trouble with SC.EXE and Autoit.

If I do this:

$SvcStop = _RunDOS("Net stop COMsysapp")

This works great. If I do this below:

$SvcCfg = _RunDOS("sc config COMsysapp start= auto")

When run, this starts spawning multiple process of the script.

Next I tried:

$SvcCfg = "sc config COMsysapp start= auto"
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /C " & $SvcCfg, "", @SW_HIDE)

When run, this also starts spawning multiple process of the script.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[hannes08]

Hi Merrik,

did you try the service UDF by engine I think this is pretty handy to use.

[Merrik]

I just tried calling a batch script with SC CONFIG in it and it does the same thing, it just starts spawning multiple instances of the script process.

[tkocsir]

I don't know if you are using this command inside a loop, but if yes, then you should know that "net" command pauses the execution until it is finished but "sc" doesn't wait. So the RunWait, _RunDOS functions doesn't make it wait until finish.

[spudw2k]

I don't suppose you named your script SC.exe or SC.bat did you?