stopping windows services

[Bart Nessux]

Can Python be used to stop windows services? I'm writing a script to
automaically remove some troublesome Symantec software, but before
running the main removal script, I need to kill some services.

Thanks,
Bart

 

[David Morgenthaler]

Get WService from http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond. Then, for
example:

import WService
import time

listener = WService.WService("Network Associates McShield")
listener.status(1)
if listener.status(0) != 'STOPPED':
print "Stopping Network Associates McShield..."
listener.stop()
time.sleep(5)
listener.status(1)

 

[George Kinney]

Can Python be used to stop windows services? I'm writing a script to
automaically remove some troublesome Symantec software, but before
running the main removal script, I need to kill some services.

if you know the services name, and are running under an account with
sufficient permissions, you could just use the cmd shell.

i.e. os.system('net stop Apache2') - kills my apache server, and obviously
os.system('net start Apache2') starts it again.

Probably a nicer API out there somewhere though.

 

[ChrisH]

Yes it can.

Check out the win32 extensions.

If you like, I can dig up some example code.