windows-services

I need to create a few Windows Services and obviously I would like to package them in a nice installer. Since I was unfamiliar with Service creation/installation I basically used code from the following example: Advanced Service Installation I did not change ProjectInstaller or InstallActions and basically just plugged my own services (File monitoring/conversion). Building and compiling the code works A-OK: The Installer works, the services are installed (but NOT started as might be expected) My Services themselves all work The Uninstall FAILS, stating the error from the title What is very

Consider this app.config appSetting entry: <add key="serilog:write-to:RollingFile.pathFormat" value="ServerServiceApp-{Date}.log" /> This is done at app startup: Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration() .ReadFrom.AppSettings() .Enrich.WithThreadId() .CreateLogger(); This is in a Windows service app. The log file ends up here: C:\Windows\SysWOW64 Clearly, we’d rather have the log file end up in the same directory that houses this service’s .exe (customers don’t want us writing stuff to SysWOW64). But how? We need the ReadFrom.AppSettings in there so that the customer can supply serilog settings

I implemented a web page (ASP .NET, VB) to start/stop a Windows service. I used impersonification, as described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306158 Everything it's ok when the page reads the service's status: _domain = Me.TextBoxDomain.Text _user = Me.TextBoxUserName.Text _password = Me.TextBoxPassword.Text _s = New ServiceController(Constant.ServiceName) If impersonateValidUser(_user, _domain, _password) Then Me.LabelServerStatusValue.Text = _s.Status.ToString undoImpersonation() Else 'Error End If The problem occurs when the page tries to start (or stop) the service: _domain = Me

I am trying to start an external process from a .NET Windows service. In the past I have used the Process.Start() overload that takes the executable path and a command line string. This works. But now I would like to start the process and have it run in the context of a particular user. So I call this version of Start() public static Process Start( string fileName, string userName, SecureString password, string domain) However, when I call the method, the application I am trying to run generates an unhandled exception: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000142). Click on OK to

I am trying to get delayed_job working as a windows service. I am so thoroughly sick of windows I can't even begin to put it into words, but I am stuck with it for now due to 3rd party dependencies. Running rake jobs:work starts the worker in a console with no problems. I've created an empty windows service to start and shutdown the worker using sc create DelayedJobWorker... . However, I can't get the service to start and stop the worker. I'm not sure what the best approach is - what I should be parameterising the service with / asking it to call. Any suggestions gratefully appreciated.