What's driving me crazy is that if I change the name of the service being 
passed to something like "thisdoesnotexist" I don't get an error.   I would 
expect to see a error when it reaches this line in the function:

service, err := manager.OpenService(name)
if err != nil {
       return fmt.Errorf("service %s does not exist: %v", name, err)
}




On Friday, February 17, 2017 at 11:42:24 AM UTC-5, Egon wrote:
>
> Try this: https://play.golang.org/p/b5EPbHD6Bm
>
> I'm guessing you are getting "Access Denied" and not seeing the error.
>
> + Egon
>
> On Friday, 17 February 2017 18:07:34 UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> I've just started learning the language and went through some of the 
>> packages that deal with file operations and that went well.  Has anyone had 
>> experience with starting and stopping windows services? I went and ran a go 
>> get on package:  "golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc/mgr".  Looking around and 
>> that seems like the correct package to be using?   I wanted to do a simple 
>> program to start the Printer Spooler service a windows 7 machine as a test 
>> but I seem to be striking out.
>>
>> package main
>>
>> import (
>>        "golang.org/x/sys/windows/svc/mgr"
>>        "fmt"
>> )
>>
>>
>> func startService(name string) error {
>>        m, err := mgr.Connect()
>>        if err != nil {
>>               return fmt.Errorf("Cannot connect to manager %v", err)
>>        }
>>        defer m.Disconnect()
>>        s, err := m.OpenService(name)
>>        if err != nil {
>>               return fmt.Errorf("service %s does not exist", name)
>>        }
>>        defer s.Close()
>>        s.Start()
>>        if err != nil {
>>               return fmt.Errorf("could not start the service: %v", err)
>>        }
>>        return nil
>> }
>>
>>
>> func main() {
>>        startService("Spooler")
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> If anyone has any examples or point out what I'm doing wrong I'd 
>> appreciate it.  Thanks in advance!
>>
>

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