perlquestion kalyanbhave <p> Hi, I am not able to start a service in my machine using the below code</p> <code> #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; sub StartServ { $computername = ''; $servicename = 'ProtectedStorage'; Win32::Service::GetStatus("\\\\".$computername, $servicename, \%status); die "service is arealdy started\n" if ($status{CurrentState} == 4); Win32::Service::StartService("\\\\".$computername,$servicename) || die "Can't start service\n"; print "Service started\n"; } </code> Error:- Global symbol "$computername" requires explicit package name at xxx.pl line 6 Global symbol "$servicename" requires explicit package name at xxx.pl line 7. When I tried downloading the Service module which cantails packages, i am not able to execute it. please provide me the steps to execute and run the module.. Thanks