'how to force stop and not restart a service
For a service written in c#.
We have it set to auto-restart so if it crashes it will restart itself.
This is fine, but we also want a way to force stop the service (the service could be deadlocked). This would happen once a week before taking a database backup.
If we use "net stop" the service might not shut down.
If we do a taskkill this will kill the service but then it will start up again in one minute.
Any ideas on how to get both use cases working?
We want to auto-restart if the service crashes, and we want to be able to run an unattended process that will stop the service (no matter what), take a backup of the database, and then restart the service after that.
Solution 1:[1]
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31688/Using-the-ServiceController-in-C-to-stop-and-start
You need to add a library, then it's just: service.Stop() and service.Start()
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| Solution | Source |
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| Solution 1 | MrFox |