From: Patrick Hurley <phurley@...>
Date: 2006-02-18T12:35:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby scripts as Win32-Service

On 2/17/06, William Ramirez <mercan01@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've through together a ruby script as test for a monitoring app for a few
> Win32 user processes I'm stuck with supporting. I've gotten most of the
> management setup, however, I'm stuck trying to figure out how to run the
> script as a service. I tried creating the service manually with
> sc.exe<http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=251192>,
> with both the script and a call to c:\ruby\bin\rubyw.exe with the filename
> as the argument, but I receive a time-out. I spent some time with google,
> but perhaps I'm missing something silly?
>
> Does win32-service do something special when creating a service that I'm
> missing with the manual service creation? I suppose I could always run it
> via the startup folder, but I thought this would be cleaner.
>
> Thanks,
>
> William Ramirez
>
>

You did "install" the service using win3-service right? (just asking)

pth