Hello,
I am trying to improve our script that controls some services on our
W2003 server.
My goal is to determine in the batch file if the service actually goes
down/up as supposed.


See:

<
E:\test>net stop spooler
The Print Spooler service is stopping.
The Print Spooler service was stopped successfully.


E:\test>tasklist /SVC | find /C "Spooler"
0

E:\test>echo %ERRORLEVEL%
0
>


errorlevel should be 1 instead of 0 ,no?

If i could set the output of find to a variable, i would have no problem
checking if %variable%==0 or similar. Is there any way to set variables
with the output of a command inside batch, using only windows tools?

Thank you all very much in advance,
Antti H


PS: Can anyone recommend a book that is useful as a command reference
with examples for windows servers?

@echo off
setlocal
set OK=N
for /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('net stop spooler^|find /i "stopped successfully"') do (
set OK=Y
)
If "%OK%" EQU "N" (
@echo The Spooler server did not stop successfully.
) ELSE (
@echo The Spooler server stopped successfully.
)
endlocal

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:18:01 GMT, Antti H <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hello,
>I am trying to improve our script that controls some services on our
>W2003 server.
>My goal is to determine in the batch file if the service actually goes
>down/up as supposed.
>
>
>See:
>
><
>E:\test>net stop spooler
>The Print Spooler service is stopping.
>The Print Spooler service was stopped successfully.
>
>
>E:\test>tasklist /SVC | find /C "Spooler"
>0
>
>E:\test>echo %ERRORLEVEL%
>0
> >
>
>
>errorlevel should be 1 instead of 0 ,no?
>
>If i could set the output of find to a variable, i would have no problem
>checking if %variable%==0 or similar. Is there any way to set variables
>with the output of a command inside batch, using only windows tools?
>
>Thank you all very much in advance,
>Antti H
>
>
>PS: Can anyone recommend a book that is useful as a command reference
> with examples for windows servers?


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

In addition to my porevious reply, Windows Server 2003 (and Windows XP) had the SC command.


sc query spooler

SERVICE_NAME: spooler
TYPE : 110 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)
STATE : 4 RUNNING
(STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0

sc stop Spooler

SERVICE_NAME: Spooler
TYPE : 110 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)
STATE : 3 STOP_PENDING
(NOT_STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0

sc query spooler

SERVICE_NAME: spooler
TYPE : 110 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS (interactive)
STATE : 1 STOPPED
(NOT_STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0


You can 'sc stop spooler' or 'net stop spooler' and then:
for /f "Tokens=1-2* Delims=: " %%a in ('sc query spooler^|FIND "STATE"') do set STATE=%%b
if "%STATE%" EQU "1" goto stopped


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:18:01 GMT, Antti H <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hello,
>I am trying to improve our script that controls some services on our
>W2003 server.
>My goal is to determine in the batch file if the service actually goes
>down/up as supposed.
>
>
>See:
>
><
>E:\test>net stop spooler
>The Print Spooler service is stopping.
>The Print Spooler service was stopped successfully.
>
>
>E:\test>tasklist /SVC | find /C "Spooler"
>0
>
>E:\test>echo %ERRORLEVEL%
>0
> >
>
>
>errorlevel should be 1 instead of 0 ,no?
>
>If i could set the output of find to a variable, i would have no problem
>checking if %variable%==0 or similar. Is there any way to set variables
>with the output of a command inside batch, using only windows tools?
>
>Thank you all very much in advance,
>Antti H
>
>
>PS: Can anyone recommend a book that is useful as a command reference
> with examples for windows servers?


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

"Jerold Schulman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> @echo off
> setlocal
> set OK=N
> for /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('net stop spooler^|find /i "stopped
successfully"') do (
> set OK=Y
> )
> If "%OK%" EQU "N" (
> @echo The Spooler server did not stop successfully.
> ) ELSE (
> @echo The Spooler server stopped successfully.
> )
> endlocal

Any reason why this wouldn't work:

net stop spooler | find /i "stopped successfully"
if errorlevel 1 (
echo The Spooler server did not stop successfully.
) ELSE (
echo The Spooler server stopped successfully.
)

/Al

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:18:01 GMT, Antti H <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >I am trying to improve our script that controls some services on our
> >W2003 server.
> >My goal is to determine in the batch file if the service actually goes
> >down/up as supposed.
> >
> >
> >See:
> >
> ><
> >E:\test>net stop spooler
> >The Print Spooler service is stopping.
> >The Print Spooler service was stopped successfully.
> >
> >
> >E:\test>tasklist /SVC | find /C "Spooler"
> >0
> >
> >E:\test>echo %ERRORLEVEL%
> >0
> > >
> >
> >
> >errorlevel should be 1 instead of 0 ,no?
> >
> >If i could set the output of find to a variable, i would have no problem
> >checking if %variable%==0 or similar. Is there any way to set variables
> >with the output of a command inside batch, using only windows tools?
> >
> >Thank you all very much in advance,
> >Antti H
> >
> >
> >PS: Can anyone recommend a book that is useful as a command reference
> > with examples for windows servers?
>
>
> Jerold Schulman
> Windows Server MVP
> JSI, Inc.
> http://www.jsiinc.com

I tend not to rely on ERRORLEVEL as I found that it is too often 'broken' between various O/S versions and hotfixes and Service Packs.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:14:24 -0700, "Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]" <alan-no-drub-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>"Jerold Schulman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> @echo off
>> setlocal
>> set OK=N
>> for /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('net stop spooler^|find /i "stopped
>successfully"') do (
>> set OK=Y
>> )
>> If "%OK%" EQU "N" (
>> @echo The Spooler server did not stop successfully.
>> ) ELSE (
>> @echo The Spooler server stopped successfully.
>> )
>> endlocal
>
>Any reason why this wouldn't work:
>
> net stop spooler | find /i "stopped successfully"
> if errorlevel 1 (
> echo The Spooler server did not stop successfully.
> ) ELSE (
> echo The Spooler server stopped successfully.
> )
>
>/Al
>
>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:18:01 GMT, Antti H <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> >Hello,
>> >I am trying to improve our script that controls some services on our
>> >W2003 server.
>> >My goal is to determine in the batch file if the service actually goes
>> >down/up as supposed.
>> >
>> >
>> >See:
>> >
>> ><
>> >E:\test>net stop spooler
>> >The Print Spooler service is stopping.
>> >The Print Spooler service was stopped successfully.
>> >
>> >
>> >E:\test>tasklist /SVC | find /C "Spooler"
>> >0
>> >
>> >E:\test>echo %ERRORLEVEL%
>> >0
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >errorlevel should be 1 instead of 0 ,no?
>> >
>> >If i could set the output of find to a variable, i would have no problem
>> >checking if %variable%==0 or similar. Is there any way to set variables
>> >with the output of a command inside batch, using only windows tools?
>> >
>> >Thank you all very much in advance,
>> >Antti H
>> >
>> >
>> >PS: Can anyone recommend a book that is useful as a command reference
>> > with examples for windows servers?
>>
>>
>> Jerold Schulman
>> Windows Server MVP
>> JSI, Inc.
>> http://www.jsiinc.com
>


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com