Restart A specific Service with Javascript

[zeek10452]

I was wondering if its possible to have javascript stop a service on my machine for instance terminal services and then start it again...Any help provided will be greatly appreciated

[Lerura]

Javascript cannot do anything to the system, like starting/killing/affecting processes
or creating/editing/deleting files.
It can only read the files, if and only if: the script is run from a local file.

[Old Pedant]

Well, actually it *COULD* do it on Windows, using MSIE. If you created (or found) an ActiveX control and installed it to your browser and allowed it to do "unsafe scripting" and didn't mind having to answer "yes, I know this is a bad thing to do" every time you ran the page. <grin/>

[Old Pedant]

Oh, and yes JS in MSIE can write local files. Again, you have to permit it to every time you run the page. But it can.

[zeek10452]

The javascript will be ran from within an already built application...I just need the JS code for stopping a service...would either of these codes be enough to get the job done:

<script>
oShell = new ActiveXObject("WSCript.shell");
oShell.run("NET START [service]");
////Or ////
oShell.run("NET STOP [service]");
</script>

<script language="JScript" runat="server">
try{
  var fullPath = "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe",
  oServer = GetObject(fullPath);
  oServer.Stop();
  oServer.Start();
}
</script>

[Old Pedant]

The second of those would work in ASP (if it works at all, that is), *NOT* in the browser. That's what runat="server" means.

The first of those *could* also be run using ASP, if you used the same runat="server". I dunno if it will work from the browser. Never tried using Wscript.Shell from the browser. But clearly the "new ActiveXObject( )" syntax is the way to use ActiveX in the browser.

[Old Pedant]

One problem you have is that if you do use ASP, the code will run as the IUSR_xxxx user (where "xxxx" is the name of the computer). That's the user that IIS runs as. So you'd have to give that user permission to do the NET commands.

[Philip M]

Originally Posted by Old Pedant

Oh, and yes JS in MSIE can write local files. Again, you have to permit it to every time you run the page. But it can.

Internet Explorer lets you write to the Windows file system by means of the harmless execCommand() function. But reading from a file requires ActiveX which is not recommended for several reasons.