Yes, if your service name is "tomcat" you can do something similar to the following:
<exec dir="${src}" executable="cmd.exe" os="Windows 2000" output="dir.txt"> <arg line="/c net start tomcat"/> </exec> <exec dir="${src}" executable="cmd.exe" os="Windows 2000" output="dir.txt"> <arg line="/c net stop tomcat"/> </exec> Check out the Ant "exec" task documentation. - Richard -----Original Message----- From: Jason W. Solinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 10:26 AM To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Controlling Tomcat Service From Ant Is there anyway to effectively start or stop the Tomcat 5.5 windows service from within Ant? I tried <exec dir="${tomcat.bin}" executable="tomcat5.exe"> <arg line="//SS//Tomcat5"/> </exec> but it produces an error message (although it works) and I don't know what the corresponding command would be to restart the service. Is there some standard way to accomplish this? Thanks, JWS --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]