Monitoring a system service

[e2e4au]

Could someone please tell me if you can monitor a windows service.

I need to be able to tell if the service is STOPPED or STARTED at any

given point in time and then do something depending on the state.

Thanks in advance

[SmOke_N]

Could someone please tell me if you can monitor a windows service.

I need to be able to tell if the service is STOPPED or STARTED at any

given point in time and then do something depending on the state.

Thanks in advance

Search the forum, there was something on this in the last month or so I believe.

[pecloe]

;returns 4 if running
;beta only
$servicename = 'wuauserv'; example windows updates

$stdout = Run('sc.exe query ' & $servicename, '', @SW_HIDE, 2)
$data = _StdOut($stdout)

Func _StdOut($stdout)
    Local $data
    While 1
        $data = StdOutRead($stdout)
        If @error Then Return 'unknown'
        If $data Then
            $data = StringStripWS($data, 4)
            Select
                Case StringInStr($data, 'STATE : 1')
                    Return '1'
                Case StringInStr($data, 'STATE : 2')
                    Return '2'
                Case StringInStr($data, 'STATE : 3')
                    Return '3'
                Case StringInStr($data, 'STATE : 4')
                    Return 'Running'
                Case Else
                    Return 'unknown'
            EndSelect
        Else
            Sleep(100)
        EndIf
    WEnd
EndFunc

MsgBox(0, '', $data)

i don't know who wrote this code, i did not.