better way for executing system commands [modified]

koumodaki

I have a program which needs to disable/enable IIS Admin. I am doing the following int val = system("net stop iisadmin"); But this function pops-up the dos window and asks the user for confirmation. I do not want this window to appear [Basically the user of my program need not be aware that the IIS is being disabled and hence need not respond to the dos window] Is there some way to stop the dos window poping up and asking for confirmation? Is there any other command that can be used? Is there a better way of doing this operation? Can I obtain the instance of IIS by using COM api and disable it?

_AnsHUMAN_

koumodaki wrote:

I do not want this window to appear

Did you try ShellExecute: HINSTANCE ShellExecute(HWND hwnd, LPCTSTR lpOperation, LPCTSTR lpFile, LPCTSTR lpParameters, LPCTSTR lpDirectory, INT nShowCmd ); It's last parameter may help you in your cause.

Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them. ;-)_AnShUmAn_

James R Twine

You may be able to get around the confirmation by redirecting a text file containing a Y, or yes followed by a CR, but it would likely be better for you to just use the SCM/Service API directly to start/stop the service. Lookup the StartService(...) Win32 function for more details. Peace!

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David Crow

koumodaki wrote:

Is there some way to stop the dos window poping up and asking for confirmation?

Yes.

echo y.|net stop iisadmin

But you are better off using James' suggestion.

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