TimeServer as a Windows service fails to start

[DougE]

Hi,

I'm trying to learn how to create and use a service so I figured I'd try to run the TImeServer sample application as a service.

First I ran the app from the command line to make sure it's working as expected and that was successful.

Then I entered the following commands:

>timeserver /registerService /displayName=TServer
[Information] The application has been successfully registered as a service

>net start TServer
The service is not responding to the control function.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186.

>timeserver /unregisterService
[Information] The service has been successfully unregistered

My first question is "What do I need to do to make this work?"

My second question is "Is there a way to use the VS 2003 debugger to debug it once it's registered?"

Thanks in advance!

Doug

[guenter]

Since Windows services run under a different user account (with a different PATH setting), the system cannot find the POCO DLLs when launching the TimeServer as a service. Solution: either put the POCO DLLs into the Windowssystem32 directory, or put the DLLs into the same directory as the application executable.

I can't answer the second question.

[DougE]

Alex,

Thanks for the help, that did the trick!

However, my server is using a FileChannel for it's logging and it doesn't generate any output when running as a service. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
Doug

[DougE]

Alex,

Thanks for the help, that did the trick!

However, my server is using a FileChannel? for it's logging and it doesn't generate any output when running as a service. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance! Doug