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From: "Glenn Mabbutt" <morebeans AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: cygrunsrv and .bat files ??
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 15:11:39 -0500
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Thanks, Fred, I'll try the cmd.exe option.  About the second part of my 
post, is it possible to set the "interact with desktop" flag via a command 
line switch??

Thanks again,
Glenn

>From: fred AT ontosys DOT com
>To: Glenn Mabbutt <morebeans AT hotmail DOT com>
>CC: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
>Subject: Re: cygrunsrv and .bat files ??
>Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:55:50 -0500
>
>cygrunsrv executes the controlled program via the execv() system call,
>which (AFAIK) doesn't understand win32 batch files.  You might try
>configuring your service to run cmd.exe as the program and give it the
>name of your batch file as an argument, so that cygrunsrv executes
>cmd.exe which then runs the batch file.
>
>On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:37:36PM -0500, Glenn Mabbutt wrote:
> > Hi. I've got a 2 line batch file that I'm trying to run as a service on
> > NT/2000 (starts a secure tunnel client which spawns vncviewer in listen
> > mode, then kills vncviewer process after secure tunnel client exits).
>
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