Nice. Although if there is still anyone out there that does not have Win32::Lanman installed on their system, get thee to a repository and download it. It's your basic one-stop shop for almost everything Win32 administration related.
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:00 AM To: Dave Roth Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disabling a service Dave Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You really should avoid modifying the Registry directly for these > reason. If Windows changes the location of this information (think > in terms of how IIS moved their configuration from the Registry to > their metabase) your script will break. Good point. > You should use the proper Win32 APIs (Win32::Service, Win32::Lanman, > Win32::Daemon, etc). Yeah, but I hate downloading random modules. As it turns out, there is another interface which Microsoft is pretty much guaranteed to support forever: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_service.asp You have to have WMI, which means Windows 2000 or XP (although you can download it for NT). Using this interface, I have rewritten my script: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/unattended/unattended/install /bin/startup-type.pl?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup This version lets you use either the unique identifier or the "display name" to refer to the service, and it is case-insensitive. So you can say this: startup-type.pl automatic iisadmin ...or this: startup-type.pl Automatic "IIS Admin Service" The script is also a decent example of how to use WMI, via which you can enumerate and configure quite a few things. - Pat _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Admin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
