How does a service communicate with a script?

[HoustonGSC]

I have a filewatcher VBscript that I want to set up as a service. I have found where you can use SERVANY.EXE to do this.

Current process: The filewatcher script reads a .ini file to determine which folders/files to process. There is also a flag in the .ini file that tells the filewatcher to either process or stop processing (shutdown).

My question is: If I convert this script to a service, what happens when someone requests the service to stop? Will the script be abruptly stopped? Is there something that I have to put in my code to allow the service mechanism to communicate with the script or can the stop request reset the flag to the stop processing value?

 

[Geates]

If the script were a service, it would terminate execution as soon as the service is stopped.

With the 100's of users that logon to our machine each month, I found it necessary to help clean out those "obsolete" profiles to try and maintain computer performance. I wrote a script and converted in to a service. Unless someone turns the service off, it runs constantly and consistently.

-Geates

 

[HoustonGSC]

That's good to know. From your comment, it appears there is no "graceful" method to end the program if it is run as a service.

I'll probably just continue to run it from our scheduler and control it via the ini file then.

Thanks for responding.
Gil.