nuke and pave? On Thursday, August 4, 2011, Keith Gable <zi...@ignition-project.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Walter Torres <otrwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> When I installed "erlsrv.exe" as a SERVICE, windows created the >> SERVICE REG KEYS. It appears in the SERVICES control and it allows me >> to attempt to start it. >> > > Did *you* create the service, or did you copy and paste the code the > installer uses? I think this may be the issue if the former. erlsrv.exe is > used to start/stop/install/remove Erlang services from what I can tell. You > wouldn't want to add it yourself as a service to start; you'd want to use it > in cmd.exe to add a service and then start whatever it put in there. > > Here's the config file for the installer (which I think is InnoSetup): > https://github.com/dch/couchdb/blob/trunk/etc/windows/couchdb.iss.tpl > > You should have installed the service by running erlsrv.exe with these > parameters (I filled in the variables from the ISS file, so change as > needed): > add "CouchDB" -workdir "X:\CouchDB\bin" -onfail restart_always -args "-sasl > errlog_type error -s couch +A 4 +W w" -comment "CouchDB 1.x.x" > > Then you can either net start CouchDB, or the installer does erlsrv.exe > start "CouchDB". > > I checked out the source for the Windows fork and grepped it for both "hkey" > and "hk", and nothing Windows-specific came out. I don't think that CouchDB > is your problem here. I think it's that Erlang is refusing to start because > it is not installed properly (and it may well depend on some sort of > registry entries). There might be a standalone version of Erlang that you > can extract to a folder and use, and then once that worked, you could use > that to install CouchDB as a service and run it. > > It sounds to me like you're trying to make a version of CouchDB that is > batch file installable and survives a nuke and pave. But that's a guess; you > could be hooking up CouchDB to a missile defense system. In any event, help > us help you - try to explain why you can't use the installer in silent mode > and why you can't use registry entries. > > P.S. In Windows, when you remove a service, you'll have to reboot to fully > be rid of its security descriptors and whatnot. Definitely don't try > removing/adding the service without restarting or you may be compounding the > problem by having incorrect SDs. >
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