Is your code up to date? What happens, if you do: fmt.Println(service, err) fmt.Println(service.Config())
On Friday, 17 February 2017 20:42:00 UTC+2, [email protected] wrote: > > 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! >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
