Programmatic way to tell when a service is stopped?

[Steve]

Is there a programmatic way to tell when a windows service is stopped.

I would like to be able to issue a command from a programming language
and get back some sort of result that would let me know when a windows
service is down.

Thanks in advance for any information

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Is there a programmatic way to tell when a windows service is stopped.

I would like to be able to issue a command from a programming language
and get back some sort of result that would let me know when a windows
service is down.

Thanks in advance for any information

Try this for the Windows Spooler service:

net start | find /i "Print Spooler" > nul

Now get your program to monitor the return code for
this command. It is 1 when the spooler is down.