Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: fred@ontosys.com Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:55:50 -0500 To: Glenn Mabbutt Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: cygrunsrv and .bat files ?? Message-ID: <20010801145550.A4653@ontosys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from morebeans@hotmail.com on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:37:36PM -0500 cygrunsrv executes the controlled program via the execv() system call, which (AFAIK) doesn't understand win32 batch files. You might try configuring your service to run cmd.exe as the program and give it the name of your batch file as an argument, so that cygrunsrv executes cmd.exe which then runs the batch file. On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:37:36PM -0500, Glenn Mabbutt wrote: > Hi. I've got a 2 line batch file that I'm trying to run as a service on > NT/2000 (starts a secure tunnel client which spawns vncviewer in listen > mode, then kills vncviewer process after secure tunnel client exits). -- Fred Yankowski fred@OntoSys.com tel: +1.630.879.1312 Principal Consultant www.OntoSys.com fax: +1.630.879.1370 OntoSys, Inc 38W242 Deerpath Rd, Batavia, IL 60510, USA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/