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From:	"Daniel Meier" <dmeier AT crosstrust DOT com>
To:	"Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References:	<019201c17852$271edcf0$2701010a AT crosstrust DOT com> <194351158649 DOT 20011128231436 AT familiehaase DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Running a shell script as a service
Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:12:29 -0800
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What constitutes a daemon?
It's just a shell script:
 while
 do
 done

It's not supposed to terminate but will if errors are encountered. The
script I was testing did not have the while loop, so it would have
terminated.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: Running a shell script as a service


> Hallo Daniel,
>
> Am 2001-11-28 um 22:17 schriebst du:
>
> > OK, this part works ok:
> > cygrunsrv --install KSEZip --path /home/user/test.sh
>
> > but starting the service gives me a dialog box:
> > "Could not start the KSEZip service on \\KILO.
> > Error 2140: An internal Windows NT error occurred."
>
> > The application event log contains:
> > "The description for Event ID (0) in Source (KSEZip) could not be found.
It
> > contains the following insertion string(s)" KSEZip: Win32 process Id =
> > 0x195: Cygwin Process Id = 0x195: 'KSEZip' service stopped."
>
> Is it a daemon?  If the script terminates itself it cannot run as service.
> I tried with a terminating perl script, it is executed but after exiting I
> get exactly this error.
>
> And I suggest better call bash with the script as argument:
>
> $ cygrunsrv -I cygtest -d "Cygwin test" -p /bin/perl.exe -a /test.pl
>
> Start the service (two tests):
>
> $ cat /var/log/cygtest.log
> Test.
> Test.
>
> $ cat test.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print "Test.\n";
>
> $ delsrv cygtest
> The command completed successfully.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Gerrit P. Haase                            mailto:gp AT familiehaase DOT de
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