Re: cygrunsrv.exe -- start the service automatically on failure??

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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

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