Useful Cygwin commands

Service Management

Using net

Start a service

net start "screen-scraper server"

Stop a service

net stop "screen-scraper server"

Using sc

List all running services

sc query type= service

List all inactive services

sc query type= service state= inactive

List all services

sc query type= service state= all

Start a service

sc start "screen-scraper server"

Stop a service

sc stop "screen-scraper server"

Status of a service

sc query "screen-scraper server"

Run command on a remote machine

sc \\user@remotehost start "name of service"