Service restart itself?

[Matt]

Is there an 'easy' way to have a service stop and restart itself? I
currently have a seperate service running who's job is to watch the other
service and restart it if there is a problem... can I eliminate that one and
have the service restart itself?

Thanks,

Matt

[ValK]

Matt,
You can use ServiceController class to stop and start windows services.
Something like this

Imports System.ServiceProcess

Dim MyController As ServiceController = New ServiceController("ServiceName")

If MyController.CanStop Then
MyController.Stop()
End If

Val

"Matt" wrote:

Is there an 'easy' way to have a service stop and restart itself? I
currently have a seperate service running who's job is to watch the other
service and restart it if there is a problem... can I eliminate that one and
have the service restart itself?

Thanks,

Matt

[Kristian F. Thomsen]

Hi Matt,

You can configure your to restart itself if an error occurs.
You can do that from the services.msc - your service - Recovery.

Br.

Kristian F. Thomsen

"Matt" <sp*****@dontgimmespam.com> wrote in message
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Is there an 'easy' way to have a service stop and restart itself? I
currently have a seperate service running who's job is to watch the other
service and restart it if there is a problem... can I eliminate that one
and have the service restart itself?

Thanks,

Matt

[Matt]

Hi Kristian,

How does this work? Do I need to leave certain exceptions unhandled?

Unfortunately, one problem I am having is that the socket listener just
decides to not listen any longer, and throws no errors. I even have a timer
running and every few seconds it checks the state of the listener and the
state seems fine.

Thanks,

Matt
"Kristian F. Thomsen" <kf*@ktconsult.dk> wrote in message
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Hi Matt,

You can configure your to restart itself if an error occurs.
You can do that from the services.msc - your service - Recovery.

Br.

Kristian F. Thomsen

"Matt" <sp*****@dontgimmespam.com> wrote in message
news:ug**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Is there an 'easy' way to have a service stop and restart itself? I
currently have a seperate service running who's job is to watch the other
service and restart it if there is a problem... can I eliminate that one
and have the service restart itself?

Thanks,

Matt