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An uninstall/unload hook for proper cleanup of services

It would be awesome if you could have a post-stop or uninstall/unload hook for services so that when they're stopped they, for example, properly unload themselves from other services and perform cleanup steps.

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  • Dec 17 2019
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  • Mike Krasnow commented
    16 Jan, 2020 03:35pm

    Thanks for the feedback Michael. I'll chat with the engineering team about this and see what we can do.

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  • Michael Lehman commented
    20 Dec, 2019 08:16pm

    I was just talking about this with my customer success engineer.  The post-stop hook makes sense for temporary stopping/unloading, but we need an uninstall hook to cleanup registrations, files, etc.. that are to expensive or undesirable to do every time we simply stop the service for system maintenance and such.  That we have to run a separate exec step or task for full uninstall seems unwieldy and easy to forget, and an uninstall hook would work perfectly.

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