cygrunsrv - services enters stopped state if underlying program exits or is killed - doesn't auto restart
Cary Lewis
cary.lewis@gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 04:51:00 GMT 2015
Corinna, thanks for the tip
--neverexits works, but not if the program that cygrunsrv starts is
stopped with a kill -9 signal. Perhaps the -9 signal propagates to the
cygrunsrv.exe program?
I will investigate monit.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Jan 26 11:14, Cary Lewis wrote:
>> I am using cygrunsrv to install a windows service that creates an ssh tunnel.
>>
>> I have configured the service to auto-restart on failures using the
>> windows 7 services.msc tool.
>>
>> If the ssh program exists, or is killed, cygrunsrv gracefully exits,
>> and the windows auto-restart logic is not invoked.
>>
>> Is there a way to get the auto-restart logic to work?
>
> Try the cygrunsrv option --neverexits. If this option is set, the
> service exits without notifying Windows. SCM thinks the service has
> exited prematurely and restarts it, if auto-restart has been configured.
>
>
> HTH,
> Corinna
>
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