package Win32::Service; # # Service.pm # Written by Douglas_Lankshear@ActiveWare.com # # subsequently hacked by Gurusamy Sarathy # $VERSION = '0.07'; require Exporter; require DynaLoader; require Win32 unless defined &Win32::IsWinNT; die "The Win32::Service module works only on Windows NT" unless Win32::IsWinNT(); @ISA= qw( Exporter DynaLoader ); @EXPORT_OK = qw( StartService StopService GetStatus PauseService ResumeService GetServices ); =head1 NAME Win32::Service - Manage system services in Perl =head1 SYNOPSIS use Win32::Service; =head1 DESCRIPTION This module offers control over the administration of system services. =head1 FUNCTIONS =head2 NOTE: All of the functions return false if they fail, unless otherwise noted. If hostName is an empty string, the local machine is assumed. =over 10 =item StartService(hostName, serviceName) Start the service serviceName on machine hostName. =item StopService(hostName, serviceName) Stop the service serviceName on the machine hostName. =item GetStatus(hostName, serviceName, status) Get the status of a service. The third argument must be a hash reference that will be populated with entries corresponding to the SERVICE_STATUS structure of the Win32 API. See the Win32 Platform SDK documentation for details of this structure. =item PauseService(hostName, serviceName) =item ResumeService(hostName, serviceName) =item GetServices(hostName, hashref) Enumerates both active and inactive Win32 services at the specified host. The hashref is populated with the descriptive service names as keys and the short names as the values. =back =cut sub AUTOLOAD { my($constname); ($constname = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/.*:://; #reset $! to zero to reset any current errors. local $! = 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__