Mikołaj Zalewski wrote: > >> Thanks for sending in your patch Mikołaj, I tested MozyHome with it, >> but it didn't help anything, the service still wouldn't start. I >> don't have the experience to work on that patch by myself, but if >> someone else starts on it and would like assistance making tests or >> something I'm happy to try. > > I can look into that (I see it's bug #12030) however it looks like > it's not a problem with starting the service but may be a problem with > the service itself. Have you tried to run this service with e.g. > notepad running in the background - the services are marked as system > processes and if there is no non-system process left, all the system > processes will terminate themselves. > > Mikołaj Zalewski > > I tried it with notepad running in the background, and the same thing happens: mozybackup.exe shows up in the process list for ~3seconds then disappears and the console displays the fixme's that I posted in bug #12030.
If you have time to look into it that would be great! My knowledge of how services work is limited at best (still an undergrad, and I haven't taken an OS class yet). Christopher