Batch file to start a service if the service is not running

beidog · 15 Jan 2011

Here what I want :

if servicename is running, do nothing.
if servicename is not running, then start servicename, then record the date and time.

based on my search [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]online[/COLOR][/COLOR], here is what I have so far:

net start | find "servicename" > nul 2>&1
if not .%errorlevel%.==.0. goto startservice

:startservice
net start "servicename"
echo service restarts @ %date% %time% >> C:\checklog.txt

pause

My problem is:
It looks like that the If statement is not working. Every time I run this batch file, it runs through all the command lines.
and I got a error message said the service is already running.
Please advice.

Ztruker · 15 Jan 2011

Why not just start it. If it's already running, nothing will happen. For instance, if I try to start BITS and it's already running, this is what I get:

net start "Background Intelligent Transfer Service"
The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.

If I run this from a batch file:

net start "Background Intelligent Transfer Service"
echo %errorlevel%

I get:

net start "Background Intelligent Transfer Service"
The requested service has already been started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2182.

C:\Users\rrkurtz>echo 2
2

So if %errorlevel% == 2 then it's already running. So the batch file could look like this:

net start "Background Intelligent Transfer Service"

FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET CDATE=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/" %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET yyyy=%%B
SET date=%mm%%dd%%yyyy%
Rem ERRORLEVEL 1 checks all levels > 0
if ERRORLEVEL 1 echo "Started BITS" %date% > logfile.txt

beidog · 16 Jan 2011

I don't not want to just run start service before we know it's not running, it may create another kind of issue.
anyone know what's wrong with my code or the if statement?

Ztruker · 16 Jan 2011

This works for me:

Rem This one is running
net start | find "Task Scheduler" > nul 2>&1
if %ERRORLEVEL%==0 echo "Task Scheduler is running"
if %ERRORLEVEL%==1 echo "Task Scheduler not running"

Rem This one is not running
net start | find "Task SchedulXr" > nul 2>&1
if %ERRORLEVEL%==0 echo "Task SchedulXr is running"
if %ERRORLEVEL%==1 echo "Task SchedulXr not running"

Note that if %ERRORLEVEL%==1 will be true for any value of 1 or greater.

TanyaC · 17 Jan 2011

beidog said:

Here what I want :

if servicename is running, do nothing.
if servicename is not running, then start servicename, then record the date and time.

based on my search [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]online[/COLOR][/COLOR], here is what I have so far:

net start | find "servicename" > nul 2>&1
if not .%errorlevel%.==.0. goto startservice

:startservice
net start "servicename"
echo service restarts @ %date% %time% >> C:\checklog.txt

Unless I'm missing something.. This will ALWAYS try to start the service. If the if not... test returns 0 the processing will drop to the :startservice section... Won't it?

Would this have worked?

net start | find "servicename" > nul 2>&1
if not .%errorlevel%.==.0. goto startservice
goto end

:startservice
net start "servicename"
echo service restarts @ %date% %time% >> C:\checklog.txt

:end
Pause

Jayce1983 · 20 Jul 2012

I'm attempting to make a simple batch file one line, to stop the spooler service. I then try to verify through the GUI and hit refresh only to find that the although the cmd line says it stopped, it is still running accourind to the GUI.

I've tried;

elevate net stop spooler

as well as

elevate sc spooler stop

Niether will succeed.

Ztruker · 20 Jul 2012

What is elevate? It's not part of my Win 7 system.

How about creating the batch file without elevate, then right click on the batch file and select Run as Administrator? Then creat4e a link to it and when you run the link, the batch file should run with Administrator privileges.