Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:06:31 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygrunsrv.exe -- start the service automatically on failure?? Message-ID: <20050905100631.GB23702@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <ca40bd48050830231373fc94d3 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <SERRANODO3hRDT6Z3Ls000003c2 AT SERRANO DOT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <SERRANODO3hRDT6Z3Ls000003c2@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Aug 31 11:48, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Pradip Jadav > >Sent: 31 August 2005 07:14 > > > Hello all, > > As with cygrunsrv.exe we can install-start-stop a service, is it > > possible to restart the service automatically on failure?? > > We can see from properties of a service, a Recovery tab is available > > where there are options like First failure, second failures, > > subsequent failures to take an action on service fail. > > I have set for my service(manually) as, > > First failure -- Restart the Service > > second failures -- Restart the Service > > subsequent failures -- Restart the Service > > So now my question is, "is it possible to set these options > > automatically when we installs the service with cygrunsrv.exe so that > > we need not to set it manually as I have done??"" > > thanx > > I'm afraid it's not currently possible, cygrunsrv does not have any > options to set the restart settings. It wouldn't be very hard to modify > cygrunsrv; the restart options are presumably stored in the registry along > with the other service parameters, so it would just be a matter of parsing a > few more command-line options and writing a few extra registry key/values. > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PTC. ...which is to say, this would have to be accomplished by using the ChangeServiceConfig2 function on systems which support it (W2K and newer), not by manipulating registry keys directly. http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PTC is still valid, of course. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/