Jerry Haltom schrieb:
Services are people too!
It's really simple. Every process on the system in a modern OS, Windows
or Unix, runs under a certain user account. Even stuff started in the
"background". It's running on the system, you just don't see it.
A service runs. It can open Windows and stuff within it's little virtual
Window environment. You can't see them, but they are there.
The biggest challenge is figuring out how to run installation programs
silently, so they don't open prompts. Can't click OK to what you can't
see.
sometimes figuring out how to install a program silently is not enough.
yesterday I spent all day, fighting with some InstallShield crappy
installer, which just didn't want to start as SYSTEM, if you don't have
SP2 installed on your XP workstation...
as Administrator wpkg.js /synchronize worked flawlessly, but as system,
it just didn't (with that only installer).
I tried repackaging, but it didn't want to work, either.
so I ended up copying all files to the C: drive "just like that", and
creating shortcuts on the desktop, and everything worked (which is also
a miracle).
BTW - does cscript or wpkg.js have some sort of "text caching"?
What I mean, yesterday I was trying to figure out why Windows "xcopy"
command copies only first 65 files, when used with WPKG (I tried that on
4 different computers), but on the other hand, copies all files when
used manually from command line?
It seems that because of excessive text output (these all files), xcopy
was breaking when scheduled from WPKG.
The solution was to add /Q flag (and >nil to cacls) to get rid of text
output...
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Tomek
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