Re: Installing a program as a Windows service on Windows 8.1

2014-05-21 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Nick Urbanik! > I have written a Perl program that I want to run as a service on > Windows 8.1. However, when I type: > cygrunsrv -I NAME -p /path/to/NAME > Note: NAME has execute permissions, and can be run. > I get the error message: > cygrunsrv: Error installing a service: OpenSCM

Re: Installing a program as a Windows service on Windows 8.1

2014-05-21 Thread Arjen Markus
You may need to open the properties dialogue for that file and edit the properties. I have run into similar problems myself (installing a DLL via a makefile causes the loss of the execute permission in my case. No idea why.) To do this, select the file in question in Windows Explorer and press the

Installing a program as a Windows service on Windows 8.1

2014-05-21 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Folks, I have written a Perl program that I want to run as a service on Windows 8.1. However, when I type: cygrunsrv -I NAME -p /path/to/NAME Note: NAME has execute permissions, and can be run. I get the error message: cygrunsrv: Error installing a service: OpenSCManager: Win32 error 5: A