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Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Karl M wrote:

> > From: "Wynfield Henman" Subject: Re: Re: [cygrunsrv] problem starting exim
> > as service
> > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:31:41 +0900
> >
> > [snip]
> > I believe that it should show this process as running (but
> > some say that exim detaches itself and so cygrunsrv can't know about
> > it)..  if would know if it did a process check, but that's another
> > matter..
>
> Hi All...
>
> Cygrunsrv needs the process to stay attached so it can keep track of it
> for you. Services are managed differently on Windows than on *ix.

That's not quite true.  Yes, the SCM (Windows' Service Control Manager)
does need a process to be attached, but that process is cygrunsrv, not the
program running as service.

> Exim has command line options to allow this (-bdf instead of -bd). I've
> never used exim, but looked in the FAQ.
>
> If you can't keep exim from detaching, you can create a wrapper script
> around exim that does not detach. This can be as simple or fancy (keep
> track of the pid for signalling) as you like.

Cygrunsrv already has support for this.  Take a look at the --pidfile
option.
	Igor
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