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Claudio
Claudio

Reputation: 3095

Create windows service from process

I want to create a windows service from a long running process. I'm able to create the service but I cannot execute it in any way.

I've also tries a very simple timeout.exe process with the same results.

> New-Service `
  -Name "test" `
  -BinaryPathName "C:\windows\system32\timeout.exe 30"

// output

Status   Name               DisplayName
------   ----               -----------
Stopped  test               test

After that, I'm trying to start service with

Start-Service test

And i receive IMMEDIATELY this output:

Start-Service: Service 'test (test)' cannot be started due to the following error: Cannot start service 'test' on computer '.'.

On event viewer are presente 2 event logs that are referencing a 30 seconds timeout that never happens: the system fails immediately.

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What I am missing ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 938

Answers (1)

Claudio
Claudio

Reputation: 3095

I'm answering to my own question.

As @alex-k says a regular process cannot be started as service and must be special interface.

In this answer there are additional details https://stackoverflow.com/a/3582179/3120219

srvany.exe is a wrapper that implements the required interface and launch a process but can have some limitations.

Upvotes: 1

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