killing a service

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

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

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.

Code:

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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"));

        .....       
}

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