I copied your code from playground. I will make that change and let you
know.
On Friday, February 17, 2017 at 2:07:38 PM UTC-5, Egon wrote:
>
> 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, akc...@gmail.com 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, akc...@gmail.com 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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