Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 11:37, Russell Howe wrote: >>Removing the key certainly >>stops the warning messages being logged when users log in via terminal >>services. > > Well, this is a big surprise. If this is all that it takes to correct the > problem, first it is easy enough to publish, and second, I'll be very happy > to remove the old code.
I think it may well be that easy, yes. That said, this isn't causing any problems, it just logs a warning message in the logs whenever anyone logs into a Windows machine via terminal services (i.e. remotely), so it seems pretty harmless. It's just not Right(tm) though :) >>* The commandline option parsing sees the following two options as >>identical: >> >> foo >> foobar > > This was on purpose to allow shorter versions of the command line options. > Probably it was a bad idea. I'm not sure that allowing abbreviated commandline options is all that useful - especially on Windows, where it is rare to be typing them in manually, and things tend to be scripted someplace. >>Had the latter not been the case, I suspect bacula-fd.exe would simply >>have terminated as soon as it had been called with /servicehelper, with >>an error to the effect that it didn't know what '/servicehelper' meant. >>Instead, it took it to mean /service and tried to register itself with >>the service helper (which MS says an application started from the >>console cannot do). > > Could you explain to me why and when Bacula would be called from that > ServiceHelper key? Also, what is a Service helper? I don't *really need to > know these things, but it might help me feeling a bit more at ease about > removing it ... /servicehelper is the command line option passed to bacula-fd.exe. I don't know what it was intended for, but it doesn't seem to even be checked for any more. Due to the above command line parsing behaviour, /servicehelper is interpreted as /service. RunServices is the name of the registry key located at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices It is much like the 'Run' key in the same location, but I think that programs listed here are started before logon (whereas entries under 'Run' are started at logon time). On NT-based OSes, I suppose the service controller is the preferred (only?) way to start service-type applications, so the RunServices key is only really appropriate for Win95/98/ME. Please don't trust what I say though, I'm no expert in the Windows startup process - all the above is based on observation & user-level experience rather than hard documentation. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may17.jpg ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
