windows-services

I'm trying to Play 2 application on Windows Server Server 2012 using the " stage " task, with the goal of wrapping this up in a service so the application will automatically run when the server gets restarted. However, when running the app I get the following message: The input line is too long. The syntax of the command is incorrect. This is because Windows has a limit of around 8000 characters for command line instructions but it seems like the Play stage command is exceeding this by passing the classpath as an argument. Copying the "stage" folder to c:\ might fix the issue (as it'll reduce

I'm writing a Windows Service that will kick off multiple worker threads that will listen to Amazon SQS queues and process messages. There will be about 20 threads listening to 10 queues. The threads will have to be always running and that's why I'm leaning towards to actually using actual threads for the worker loops rather than threadpool threads. Here is a top level implementation. Windows service will kick off multiple worker threads and each will listen to it's queue and process messages. protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { for (int i = 0; i < _workers; i++) { new Thread

I want to read the custom XML section from the app.config of a C# windows service. How do I go about it? The XML is below: <Books> <Book name="name1" title="title1"/> <Book name="name2" title="title2"/> </Books> What you want to do is read up on Custom Configuration Sections . Kevin Nisbet In a project I developed I use something similar for configuration that I found. I believe the article was called the last configuration section handler I'll ever need (I can't find a working link, maybe someone can link it for me). This method takes what you want to do one step further, and actually de

Given a service name, I would like to retrieve the username that it runs under (i.e. the username shown in the 'Log On' tab of a service's properties window). There doesn't appear to be anything in the ServiceController class to retrieve this basic information. Nothing else in System.ServiceProcess looks like it exposes this information either. Is there a managed solution to this, or am I going to have to drop down into something lower-level? Riaan Using WMI, with the System.Management you can try the following code: using System; namespace WindowsServiceTest { class Program { static void Main

I frequently showcase the jhat, jps , and jstack tool set to developers on Linux and Mac. However, a developer recently indicated that these are unusable in Windows if the Java app in question is running as a Windows Service . A Sun-filed bug says something very similar , but was closed due to inactivity. I have tested this out for myself, and indeed it appears true, though I can hardly believe it. Here is the setup: Tomcat or similar running as a Windows service with the "Log On As" == "Local System" A user with Admin privileges logged in to the same Windows machine. Admin opens Windows Task

Using C#, how may I get the time remaining (before the elapse event will occur) from a System.Timers.Timer object? In other words, let say I set the timer interval to 6 hours, but 3 hours later, I want to know how much time is remaining. How would I get the timer object to reveal this time remaining? The built-in timer doesn't provide the time remaining until elapse. You'll need to create your own class which wraps a timer and exposes this info. Something like this should work. public class TimerPlus : IDisposable { private readonly TimerCallback _realCallback; private readonly Timer _timer;

Is it possible for a C# Windows service running as Local System or Local Service to impersonate another user without needing a password for that user ? How would this be done? Note: My motivation for this is to be able to run user specific WMI queries in a service. The WMI calls I'm making (to the OfflineFiles WMI API) are user sensitive, and they only work when I run my service as the user whose data I want to query. I don't want users to have to enter their usernames and passwords when installing the service, so I'd like to just run the service as Local System or something, and impersonate