From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-04-15T21:10:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32 Service: Access Denied when creating service

On Apr 15, 8:10 am, Rajiv Abraham <rajiv.abra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rajiv Abraham wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to create and register a windows service with the following
> > code.
>
> > require "rubygems"
> > require "win32/service"
> >    include Win32
> > svc = Service.new(:service_name => "rajiv_service_name")
>
> > Error:
> > C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/win32-service-0.7.1-x86-mswin32-60/lib/win32 /service.rb:368:in
> > `initialize': Access is denied. (Win32::Service::Error)
> >         from
> > C:/Users/Rajiv/Documents/NetBeansProjects/MusicClockService/lib/register_ba r_1.rb:9:in
> > `new'
> >         from
> > C:/Users/Rajiv/Documents/NetBeansProjects/MusicClockService/lib/register_ba r_1.rb:9
>
> > I tried changing to:
>
> > svc = Service.new(:service_name =>SERVICE_NAME,
> >                   :service_start_name => "HOME\\Rajiv",
> >                   :password => "my_pwd" )
>
> > but it still did not work.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Rajiv
>
> Just adding to the previous post, if it helps:
> - I installed the win32-services gem using gem install win32-service
> --platform=mswin32
> - The doc. says that only :service_name is mandatory. So, it is bit
> surprising that it does not work
> - User Rajiv is Administrator

Is the prompt from where are you invoking the ruby script running with
elevated privileges?

On Vista and 7 even when user is Administrator it needs UAC elevation
to properly modify registry related to system

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Luis Lavena