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Subject: Re: Services aren't running
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Mike Brown <brown AT mrvideo DOT vidiot DOT com> wrote:
> The upgrade from 1.5 to 1.7 broke the starting of the services.  I just
> noticed that there are no services running when I do a "ps."  That means
> cron isn't working either.
>
> What did the 1.7 install do to break the services that I had running and why
> didn't it set them up do start at boot time?
>
> MB
> --

Just a hunch but did you remember to stop the old services before
doing the upgrade?  Windows can't mess with files that are locked and
in use.

I know that services work properly under 1.7.
Rance

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