killing a service

[avi123]

Hi,

I have a service ,which I can start/stop threw administration tools/services

What i don't know is how do I stop/kill the sevice from instide

I mean If I notice a fatal error I want to:
1. kill the service
2. write a message to the event viewer (of course before killing the service)

Can anyone pls tell me how do I do the 2 things?

Thanks in advance
avi

P.S I don't know it matters but I'm using Win2000 OS

Thanks

[cilu]

Use StepService(). Take a look in MSDN at Stopping a Service in Platform SDK: DLLs, Processes, and Threads section.

[amarcode]

I usually use ATL COM AppWizard to create a service application and call PostThreadMessge(dwThreadID,WM_QUIT,0,0) to stop the service from inside the service program.
The dwThreadID parameter is a main thread ID and can be taken from _Module.dwThreadID. To write a message to the event log I use CServiceModule::LogEvent function.

void CServiceModule::Run()
{
	.....

	// Init your service program here
	MSG msg;
	while (GetMessage(&msg, 0, 0, 0))
		DispatchMessage(&msg);
	//Clean up your service program here
	LogEvent(_T("Service stopped"));

	.....	
}