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Windows Perl Scripting Forums » Topic: Updating Service Entry http://www.roth.net/forums/ Windows Perl Scripting Forums » Topic: Updating Service Entry en Wed, 22 May 2013 06:19:09 +0000 Dave on "Updating Service Entry" http://www.roth.net/forums/topic.php?id=27#post-68 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:08:09 +0000 Dave 68@http://www.roth.net/forums/ You can either use Win32::Lanman's ChangeServiceConfig() method or Win32::Daemon's ConfigureService() method. The latter is discussed in chapter 8 of my second book "Win32 Perl Scripting: The Administrator's Handbook" (<a href="http://www.roth.net/books/handbook/">http://www.roth.net/books/handbook/</a>). Example 8.5 from the book briefly demonstrates how to modify a service's configuration. In your case, however, you would want to change the name of the service in the %ServiceConfig hash, remove the credentials and add the 'start_type' field: <code>%ServiceConfig = (     name       =>  'YourServiceName',     machine    =>  "\\\\" . Win32::NodeName(), # Represent the local machine     start_type =>  SERVICE_AUTO_START, );</code> Note that you could use a start_type of: -SERVICE_AUTO_START -SERVICE_DEMAND_START -SERVICE_DISABLED I'll ensure that our web page on this (<a href="http://www.roth.net/perl/daemon/">http://www.roth.net/perl/daemon/</a>) is updated to reflect this. dsully on "Updating Service Entry" http://www.roth.net/forums/topic.php?id=27#post-64 Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:54:49 +0000 dsully 64@http://www.roth.net/forums/ I'd like to be able to toggle a service's start_type from AUTO to DEMAND. It doesn't look like Win32::Daemon can do that, except with a DeleteService() followed by a CreateService() which I'd like to avoid. I've been told that there are Win32::Service extensions that might help Thanks