Hi Torsten,

I've never had much luck running squeak as a service the way you
describe -- glad to hear it has worked in the past, but I've had
better luck running it as a service using the srvany.exe program you
can find on the net.  The following Microsoft KB article describes how
to use srvany.exe (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q137890/) and where
to get it (NT resource kit).  Here's a link to the download of the
resource kit tools
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en).
 Of course you must install srvany.exe as a service using the
instsrv.exe program (also provided in the resource kit).

Anyways, that's how I currently run squeak as a service (using the
-headless option) with great success.  Maybe it will work with the
latest VM.

Regards,

John


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:48:03 +0100 (MET), Torsten Bergmann
<astares at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did a small seaside application I want to run as a squeak
> service on my computer. Using Squeak's ability to run as
> an NT service was no problem in old VM versions.
> 
> For instance I'm running SwikiSwiki as a service without
> a problem since years (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/swiki)
> 
> When using the newest windows VM Squeak has a problem to find
> the image when running as service. I'm registering the service
> like this:
> 
>   squeak.exe -service: "TestApp" "c:\TestApp\testapp.image"
> 
> When changing the service properties in the control panel
> for the service to be able to interact with the desktop
> I get the following error: Could not open the Squeak image file 'x[][]'.
> 
> Where the image file name looks like a mistyped unicode string.
> 
> I have noticed this behavior on a Win XP and a Win2k box.
> This bug was already described by Vladimir Janousek in May 2003 in:
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2003-May/058064.html
> but is still not solved.
> 
> I've found another bug description from Pavel Krivánek from March
> 2004
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-March/075864.html
> He suggested to specify the image file name in the *.ini file, I tried
> this but without success.
> 
> Everything seems to be set up ok:
> 
> 1. The registry includes the following key:
>    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\TestApp\
>    with a subkey "Startup" including an Item "Image" pointing
>    to "c:\TestApp\testapp.image".
> 2. The squeak.ini file includes an ImageName="testapp.image"
>    entry in the global section
> 3. the squeak.ini as well as the image reside in the same directory
>    as the VM
> 
> I also tried different combinations (relative/absolute paths, ...)
> but always without success.
> 
> The interesting thing is that when I use the old VM from SwikiSwiki
> it is working without a problem. But using an old VM may have other
> side effects and we should definitely track down the bug.
> 
> Any ideas for a workaround or how we can fix the current WinVM to find
> the image when running as a service?
> 
> Thanks
> Torsten
> 
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