windows-services

I am creating a Windows Service which I want to use NLog with. I want the logs to be written to the install location of the service say something like: PathToInstalledService\Logs\MyLog.txt This is of course going to require administrator priveledges. So my question is, when creating the install for the Service, what account should I use on the ServiceProcessInstaller. I have been currently using LocalService, but this account does not have the required elevation. Thanks. During installation you should change the permissions of the 'Logs' directory to allow your service account to write files.

Im building my first Windows Service. It's a component that connects to a mailbox and downloads all mails and store them on my local drive. My questions are these. What is the best way to repeat a program call in c# windows service. Im thinking of using a simple timer? Where do I start and stop the timer? is it in the service itself or the program my service is running? What code should be included in a Windows Service for the following function protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { //timer? // MyProgram mp = new MyProgram(); } Should I simply start my application with a new

I've been looking for a comparable approach as posted here for Windows Server 2003 for starting jvisualvm under system account. But I got the error: ...\jdk1.6.0_24\bin\jvisualvm.exe exited on ... with error code -1073741819. I found that jvisualvm is using a configuration file: ...\jdk1.6.0_24\lib\visualvm\etc\visualvm.conf This configuration file contains a default_userdir property that points to ${HOME}/... . The system account seems to have issues with ${HOME} . Changing this parameter and replace ${HOME} with C:/Temp makes the above mentioned solution available for Windows Server 2008 R2

I am running GlassFish 3.0.1 as a windows service under Windows Server 2003 with Java 1.6 u 20, and am generally happy. I would like to be able to use VisualVM on this JVM and used Unable to use JConsole with Tomcat running as windows service as a starting point, but starting with PsTools\PsExec.exe -i -s "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin\jvisualvm.exe" results in a jvisualvm.exe and a nbexec.exe process showing up in Task Manager with SYSTEM as the user but I do not see any GUI from the program as I do when I run it manually as myself. I am logged in with Remote Desktop from Windows 7 in

I have installed SlikSVN and I'm trying to set up svnserve. SlikSvn is installed in C:\Program Files\SlikSvn and C:\Program Files\SlikSvn\bin is in the path. The registry entry for the service is currently" svnserve.exe --service -r "C:\SVNReposities" DisplayName= "Subversion" depend= Tcpip start= auto However, when I try and start the service I get the following error: Could not start SVNService service on Local Computer Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. If I change the registry entry to" svnserve.exe --service -r "C:\SVNReposities"