Stop and Start a service via batch or cmd file

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How can I script a bat or cmd to stop and start a service reliably with error checking  or let me know that it wasn t successful for whatever reason

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I just used Jonas  example above and created full list of 0 to 24 errorlevels   Other post is correct that net start and net stop only use errorlevel 0 for success and 2 for failure   But this is what worked for me   net stop postgresql-9 1 if  errorlevel     2 echo Access Denied - Could not stop service if  errorlevel     0 echo Service stopped successfully echo Errorlevel   errorlevel    Change stop to start and works in reverse

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net start  serviceName    and  net stop  serviceName    tell you whether they have succeeded or failed pretty clearly  For example  U   gt net stop alerter The Alerter service is not started   More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3521    If running from a batch file  you have access to the ERRORLEVEL of the return code  0 indicates success  Anything higher indicates failure   As a bat file  error bat    echo off net stop alerter if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto error exit  error echo There was a problem pause   The output looks like this   U   gt error bat The Alerter service is not started   More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3521   There was a problem Press any key to continue         Return Codes   - 0   Success  - 1   Not Supported  - 2   Access Denied  - 3   Dependent Services Running  - 4   Invalid Service Control  - 5   Service Cannot Accept Control  - 6   Service Not Active  - 7   Service Request Timeout  - 8   Unknown Failure  - 9   Path Not Found  - 10   Service Already Running  - 11   Service Database Locked  - 12   Service Dependency Deleted  - 13   Service Dependency Failure  - 14   Service Disabled  - 15   Service Logon Failure  - 16   Service Marked For Deletion  - 17   Service No Thread  - 18   Status Circular Dependency  - 19   Status Duplicate Name  - 20   Status Invalid Name  - 21   Status Invalid Parameter   - 22   Status Invalid Service Account  - 23   Status Service Exists  - 24   Service Already Paused   Edit 20 04 2015  Return Codes        The NET command does not return the documented Win32 Service class return codes  Service Not Active Service Request Timeout  etc  and for many errors will simply return Errorlevel 2    Look here  http   ss64 com nt net service html

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Use the SC  service control  command  it gives you a lot more options than just start  amp  stop      DESCRIPTION            SC is a command line program used for communicating with the           NT Service Controller and services    USAGE        sc  lt server gt   command   service name              The option  lt server gt  has the form    ServerName        Further help on commands can be obtained by typing   sc  command         Commands          query-----------Queries the status for a service  or                         enumerates the status for types of services          queryex---------Queries the extended status for a service  or                         enumerates the status for types of services          start-----------Starts a service          pause-----------Sends a PAUSE control request to a service          interrogate-----Sends an INTERROGATE control request to a service          continue--------Sends a CONTINUE control request to a service          stop------------Sends a STOP request to a service          config----------Changes the configuration of a service  persistant           description-----Changes the description of a service          failure---------Changes the actions taken by a service upon failure          qc--------------Queries the configuration information for a service          qdescription----Queries the description for a service          qfailure--------Queries the actions taken by a service upon failure          delete----------Deletes a service  from the registry           create----------Creates a service   adds it to the registry           control---------Sends a control to a service          sdshow----------Displays a service s security descriptor          sdset-----------Sets a service s security descriptor          GetDisplayName--Gets the DisplayName for a service          GetKeyName------Gets the ServiceKeyName for a service          EnumDepend------Enumerates Service Dependencies         The following commands don t require a service name        sc  lt server gt   lt command gt   lt option gt          boot------------ ok   bad  Indicates whether the last boot should                         be saved as the last-known-good boot configuration         Lock------------Locks the Service Database         QueryLock-------Queries the LockStatus for the SCManager Database   EXAMPLE            sc start MyService

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SC can do everything with services    start  stop  check  configure  and more

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I have created my personal batch file for this  mine is a little different but feel free to modify as you see fit  I created this a little while ago because I was bored and wanted to make a simple way for people to be able to input ending  starting  stopping  or setting to auto  This BAT file simply requests that you input the service name and it will do the rest for you  I didn t realize that he was looking for something that stated any error  I must have misread that part  Though typically this can be done by inputting    output txt on the end of the line    The  var  is just a way for the user to be able to input their own service into this  instead of having to go modify the bat file every time that you want to start stop a different service    If I am wrong  anyone can feel free to correct me on this     echo off set  p c  Would you like to start a service  Y N     if  I   c   EQU  Y  goto  1   if  I   c   EQU  N  goto  2      1       set  p var  Service name    2  set  p c  Would you like to stop a service  Y N     if  I   c   EQU  Y  goto  3   if  I   c   EQU  N  goto  4      3       set  p var1  Service name   4 set  p c  Would you like to disable a service  Y N     if  I   c   EQU  Y  goto  5   if  I   c   EQU  N  goto  6      5       set  p var2  Service name   6  set  p c  Would you like to set a service to auto  Y N     if  I   c   EQU  Y  goto  7   if  I   c   EQU  N  goto  10      7       set  p var3  Service name   10 sc start  var  sc stop  var1  sc config  var2  start disabled sc config  var3  start auto

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SC NET STOP START PsService WMIC Powershell is also easy for use option  SC and NET are already given as an anwests  PsService add some neat features but requires a download from Microsoft  But my favorite way is with WMIC as the WQL syntax gives a powerful way to manage more than one service with one line  WMI objects can be also used through powershell vbscript jscript c    The easiest way to use it  wmic service MyService call StartService wmic service MyService  call StopService  And example with WQL wmic service where  quot name like    32Time    and ErrorControl  Normal  quot  call StartService  This will start all services that have a name containing 32Time and have normal error control  Here are the methods you can use  With   wmic service get  FORMAT VALUE  you can see the available information about the services

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We d like to think that  net stop   will stop the service   Sadly  reality isn t that black and white   If the service takes a long time to stop  the command will return before the service has stopped   You won t know  though  unless you check errorlevel   The solution seems to be to loop round looking for the state of the service until it is stopped  with a pause each time round the loop   But then again     I m seeing the first service take a long time to stop  then the  net stop  for a subsequent service just appears to do nothing   Look at the service in the services manager  and its state is still  Started  - no change to  Stopping    Yet I can stop this second service manually using the SCM  and it stops in 3 or 4 seconds

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Using the return codes from net start and net stop seems like the best method to me  Try a look at this  Net Start return codes

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I am writing a windows service in C   the stop uninstall build install start loop got too tiring  Wrote a mini script  called it reploy bat and dropped in my Visual Studio output directory  one that has the built service executable  to automate the  loop    Just set these 3 vars   servicename   this shows up on the Windows Service control panel  services msc   slndir   folder  not the full path  containing your solution   sln  file  binpath   full path  not the folder path  to the service executable from the build  NOTE  This needs to be run from the Visual Studio Developer Command Line for the msbuild command to work   SET servicename  My Amazing Service  SET slndir  C dir that contains sln file  SET binpath  C path to service exe  SET currdir  cd   call net stop  servicename  call sc delete  servicename  cd  slndir  call msbuild  cd  bindir  call sc create  servicename  binpath  binpath  call net start  servicename  cd  currdir    Maybe this helps someone

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Syntax always gets me     so     Here is explicitly how to add a line to a batch file that will kill a remote service  on another machine  if you are an admin on both machines  run the  bat as an administrator  and the machines are on the same domain  The machine name follows the UNC format  myserver  sc   ip ip ip ip stop p4 1   In this case    p4 1 was both the Service Name and the Display Name  when you view the Properties for the service in Service Manager  You must use the Service Name   For your Service Ops junkies    be sure to append your reason code and comment  i e   4  which equals  Planned  and comment  Stopping server for maintenance   sc   ip ip ip ip stop p4 1 4 Stopping server for maintenance

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Manual service restart is ok - services msc has  Restart  button  but in command line both sc and net commands lacks a  restart  switch and if restart is scheduled in cmd bat file  service is stopped and started immediately  sometimes it gets an error because service is not stopped yet  it needs some time to shut things down    This may generate an error  sc stop  sc start   It is a good idea to insert timeout  I use ping  it pings every 1 second   sc stop  ping localhost -n 60 sc start

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Sometimes you can find the stop does not work     My SQlServer sometimes does this  Using the following commandline kills it  If you really really need your script to kill stuff that doesn t stop  I would have it do this as a last resort  taskkill  pid  pid number   f

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Here is the Windows 10 command to start System Restore using batch    sc config swprv start  Auto   You may also like those commands     Change registry value to auto start System restore  REG ADD  HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion SystemRestore   v DisableSR  t REG DWORD  d 0  f Create a system restore point  Wmic exe  Namespace  root default Path SystemRestore Call CreateRestorePoint  djibe saved your PC   100  12 Change System Restore disk usage  vssadmin resize shadowstorage  for C   on C   maxsize 10    Enjoy

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Instead of checking codes  this works too  net start  Apache tomcat     goto ExitError   End   exit 0     ExitError   echo An error has occurred while starting the tomcat services   exit 1

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or you can start remote service with this cmd   sc    lt computer gt  start  lt service gt

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You can use the NET START command and then check the ERRORLEVEL environment variable  e g   net start  your service  if  errorlevel     2 echo Could not start service  if  errorlevel     0 echo Service started successfully  echo Errorlevel   errorlevel    Disclaimer  I ve written this from the top of my head  but I think it ll work

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