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Schedule a service to stop or kill it if it dosn't
Posted on 2009-05-18
Hi,
I would like to be able to stop a specific service, and unfortunately, sometimes the service hangs, and I therefore have to kill it. I would therefore appriciate very much, if anyone has a script which was able to try to stop the service, and if it returns that is was unable to do that, then kill the process.
If possible, I would prefer a simple DOS script
OS is Windows 2003 Std
Thanks in regards
I would like to be able to stop a specific service, and unfortunately, sometimes the service hangs, and I therefore have to kill it. I would therefore appriciate very much, if anyone has a script which was able to try to stop the service, and if it returns that is was unable to do that, then kill the process.
If possible, I would prefer a simple DOS script
OS is Windows 2003 Std
Thanks in regards
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Active 1 day ago
Well if you are just using a "net stop" command it should return an error level (it seems to return errorlevel 2):
@echo off
net stop "your service"
if errorlevel 0 goto OK
Echo Trying again...
net stop "your service"
if errorlevel 0 goto OK
taskkill /F /T /IM yourservice.exe
:OK
You could do similar with sc.exe if you are using that instead.
Steve
@echo off
net stop "your service"
if errorlevel 0 goto OK
Echo Trying again...
net stop "your service"
if errorlevel 0 goto OK
taskkill /F /T /IM yourservice.exe
:OK
You could do similar with sc.exe if you are using that instead.
Steve
Active today
You should know that net stop does not wait very long for the service to stop. The GUI waits longer. So the approach with twice stopping is appropriate.
sc will NOT wait till stopped, the service status is STOP_PENDING, and you would have to query it again after some seconds to get the resulting status. More complex, that is. Above approach is the one I would go, but I would compress it a bit:
sc will NOT wait till stopped, the service status is STOP_PENDING, and you would have to query it again after some seconds to get the resulting status. More complex, that is. Above approach is the one I would go, but I would compress it a bit:
net stop "your service" || net stop "your service" || taskkill /f /t /im yourservice.exe
Hi
It dosn't work 100%, as you can see from below, it tries to stop the service twice, but it dosn't seems to reach the linie with the "taskkill" command, and the service isn't killed. I tried to copY/paste the taskkill into a promt, just to test, and it killed the process, as supposed to do.
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C:\>Test.bat
C:\>net stop nssrv13-sql
The Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision Application Server NSSRV13-SQL service
is stopping........
The Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision Application Server NSSRV13-SQL service
could not be stopped.
C:\>if errorlevel 0 goto OK
C:\>
It dosn't work 100%, as you can see from below, it tries to stop the service twice, but it dosn't seems to reach the linie with the "taskkill" command, and the service isn't killed. I tried to copY/paste the taskkill into a promt, just to test, and it killed the process, as supposed to do.
-----------------
C:\>Test.bat
C:\>net stop nssrv13-sql
The Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision Application Server NSSRV13-SQL service
is stopping........
The Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision Application Server NSSRV13-SQL service
could not be stopped.
C:\>if errorlevel 0 goto OK
C:\>
Active 1 day ago
Just lose the second "NET STOP" then and try that.... or the second errorlevel check anyway (i.e. the second NET STOP doesn't hurt as it gives a bit of a longer delay to see if it stops...
You can/could also do checks with tasklist etc. to see if the process is still running, or use SC to query the status to see if it is running after a delay perhaps, or check the output of a "NET START" command to see if it is running. Depends whether this is to run automated or manually just for convenience etc.
The potential flaw in running two net stop commands is that the second may return an errorlevel of "2" if the service was stopped before it ran (as would the original net stop if the service was not running) but that would just mean the taskill runs unecessarily.
If you wanted belt and braces you'd have to:
Check the service was already Started
Run stop command
if error then wait a bit
check service status. If still not stopped then run taskkill
Check with tasklist if it is running..
Steve
You can/could also do checks with tasklist etc. to see if the process is still running, or use SC to query the status to see if it is running after a delay perhaps, or check the output of a "NET START" command to see if it is running. Depends whether this is to run automated or manually just for convenience etc.
The potential flaw in running two net stop commands is that the second may return an errorlevel of "2" if the service was stopped before it ran (as would the original net stop if the service was not running) but that would just mean the taskill runs unecessarily.
If you wanted belt and braces you'd have to:
Check the service was already Started
Run stop command
if error then wait a bit
check service status. If still not stopped then run taskkill
Check with tasklist if it is running..
Steve
Well, I'm down to these 4 linies, and the process is still not killed
net stop nssrv13-sql
if errorlevel 0 goto OK
taskkill /F /T /IM nassql.exe
:OK
I think it newer reach the "if .... "????
Peter
net stop nssrv13-sql
if errorlevel 0 goto OK
taskkill /F /T /IM nassql.exe
:OK
I think it newer reach the "if .... "????
Peter
Active 1 day ago
What does a
TASKLIST /SVCS
show as a matter of interest?
Try echo %errorlevel% after the net stop command.
If you know that it will either a) not stop ever or b) cleanly shutdown in the time it takes net stop to work then remove the if errorlevel altogether and just force the taskkill adter the net stop command:
net stop nssrv13-sql
taskkill /F /T /IM nassql.exe
Steve
Steve
TASKLIST /SVCS
show as a matter of interest?
Try echo %errorlevel% after the net stop command.
If you know that it will either a) not stop ever or b) cleanly shutdown in the time it takes net stop to work then remove the if errorlevel altogether and just force the taskkill adter the net stop command:
net stop nssrv13-sql
taskkill /F /T /IM nassql.exe
Steve
Steve
Active today
To be failsave, I just would apply three net stops, followed by a taskkill, ignoring all errors.
If you omit all net stop, and use only taskkill, does that work? I.e. can nassql.exe really be killed? For services, that's not a normal condition, as they prevent being killed in many cases.
If you omit all net stop, and use only taskkill, does that work? I.e. can nassql.exe really be killed? For services, that's not a normal condition, as they prevent being killed in many cases.
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