How to use “sc” to install a service and specify NO ACTION for “subsequent failures” under recovery

Question

I created a service in VB.NET and wanted to use the \"sc\" program to install it. (I needed to package it so that someone else in my organization could perform the actual instal

Answer 1

To expand on this answer, the sc command is stupidly finnicky, and you need to do a couple things:

1. you must provide 'reset' and 'actions' at the same time
2. you must have a space after each option, so reset= <number>, etc
3. you cannot provide no options to 'action' (despite what the documentation on sc.exe claims), but you can provide empty values separated by a slash. All of these 3 commands will make it so there are no actions for any of the 3 attempts
   • sc failure EraAgentSvc reset= 86400 actions= //
   • sc failure EraAgentSvc reset= 86400 actions= ////
   • sc failure EraAgentSvc reset= 86400 actions= //////

and those commands will end up with the result from 'sc qfailure':

C:\Users\Administrator>sc qfailure EraAgentSvc
[SC] QueryServiceConfig2 SUCCESSSERVICE_NAME: EraAgentSvc
        RESET_PERIOD (in seconds)    : 86400
        REBOOT_MESSAGE               :
        COMMAND_LINE                 :

Answer 2

I eventually figured out to run the command like this:

sc failure MyServiceName reset= 86400 actions= restart/15000/restart/30000//1000

Once I did this, and re-openned the service properties GUI, "Take no action" was shown as I wanted it to be.

After I started writing the question, I did finally find this SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12631379/1812688

Although, it wasn't in direct response to the question