Hi, Andrew
a) can you run the DIRMON.pl script as yourself, interactively?
b) can you rediect STDERR to a file in a BEGIN{} block to see if you're able
to capture any errors from server mgr.
c) That error isn't always a problem - sometimes the service does start, I'm
guessing it's not in your case, though so it's probably waiting on
something.
Was the service initially installed to run as Localhost\System (or
whatever)?
Kind regards,
Mark Anderson
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> I've been having a battle getting a simple perl script to start as a Win32
> service (using Win32::Daemon) on XP. In frustration I've reverted to the
> DIRMON script from David Roth's website, which is touted as the example,
> and I'm having exactly the same problems with that. Methinks the problem
> is with me, and a lack of something in the Win32 knowledge department (my
> background is primarily VMS & Unix) - hopefully someone can point me in
> the right direction.
>
> I have no problems installing the DIRMON script via a simple
>
> perl DIRMON.pl -install
>
> I've done this without any account or other parameters, but from looking
> at the installed service, it seems to add sensible defaults. If I now try
> and start this through the SCM, it immediately returns with
>
> Couldn ot start the directory monitoring service on the local computer
> Error1 053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in
> a timely fashion
>
> Thinking that this could be a privilege issue with running outside an
> account context, I've tried to start this with an account and password
>
> perl DIRMON.pl -install -user xxx -pass xxx
>
> I actually set up an account called xxx with the same password, so this
> is literally what was entered. This returns with;
>
> Failedt o add the Directory Monitoring Service.
> Error:T he account name is invalid or does not exist, or the password is
> invalid for the account name specified
>
> I've then tried installing this as a system service, then manually adding
> the account and password to the logon details in the services console, and
> starting this again. This still returns with the 1053 error above.
>
> I have found the SCM events logged for the startup failures, and these are
> all of the form
>
> Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Directory Monitoring Service
> service to connect.
>
> This implies that the SCM waited for 30 seconds for something to happen,
> but in all cases I have seen the failure was reported immediately the
> start request was made
>
> What am I missing??? How do you debug problems at the service level?
>
> Thanks for any help or pointers
>
> Andrew
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