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- package Win32::Service;
-
- #
- # Service.pm
- # Written by Douglas_Lankshear@ActiveWare.com
- #
- # subsequently hacked by Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>
- #
-
- $VERSION = '0.04';
-
- require Exporter;
- require DynaLoader;
-
- die "The Win32::Service module works only on Windows NT" if(!Win32::IsWinNT());
-
- @ISA= qw( Exporter DynaLoader );
- @EXPORT_OK =
- qw(
- StartService
- StopService
- GetStatus
- PauseService
- ResumeService
- GetServices
- );
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- Win32::Service - manage system services in perl
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use Win32::Service;
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- This module offers control over the administration of system services.
-
- =head1 FUNCTIONS
-
- =head2 NOTE:
-
- All of the functions return FALSE (0) if they fail, unless otherwise noted.
- If hostName is an empty string, the local machine is assumed.
-
- =over 10
-
- =item StartService(hostName, serviceName)
-
- Start the service serviceName on machine hostName.
-
- =item StopService(hostName, serviceName)
-
- Stop the service serviceName on the machine hostName.
-
- =item GetStatus(hostName, serviceName, status)
-
- Get the status of a service.
-
- =item PauseService(hostName, serviceName)
-
- =item ResumeService(hostName, serviceName)
-
- =item GetServices(hostName, hashref)
-
- Enumerates both active and inactive Win32 services at the specified host.
- The hashref is populated with the descriptive service names as keys
- and the short names as the values.
-
- =back
-
- =cut
-
- sub AUTOLOAD
- {
- my($constname);
- ($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://;
- #reset $! to zero to reset any current errors.
- $!=0;
- my $val = constant($constname);
- if ($! != 0) {
- if($! =~ /Invalid/) {
- $AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD = $AUTOLOAD;
- goto &AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD;
- }
- else {
- ($pack,$file,$line) = caller;
- die "Your vendor has not defined Win32::Service macro $constname, used in $file at line $line.";
- }
- }
- eval "sub $AUTOLOAD { $val }";
- goto &$AUTOLOAD;
- }
-
- bootstrap Win32::Service;
-
- 1;
- __END__
-