Unable to start the service registered

[romilshah]

Hi,

 

I am facing problem in starting an application registered as a service on Windows 2008 server.

 

Given below are the details steps :

 

Code snippet used to register a service :

 

// Open a connection to the service control manager on

// the local machine.

srvManager = OpenSCManager( NULL,

NULL,

SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS

);

 

// If can't get a connection, we have to return.

if (srvManager == NULL) {

Debug(LDAP_DEBUG_TRACE,

"getCurrentProcessSID: OpenSCManager failed errno=%d.\n",

GetLastError());

return ldtr_rc(LDAP_OPERATIONS_ERROR);

}

 

 

dwStartType = SERVICE_AUTO_START;

 

 

// Now try to create the service.

ptrService = CreateService(

// pointer to the service control manager.

srvManager,

// The name of the service.

service_name,

// The display name description of the service.

description,

SERVICE_ALL_ACCESS,

SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS,

// If the service is auto started or now.

dwStartType,

SERVICE_ERROR_NORMAL,

// The command to run and parameters to pass it.

command,

NULL,

NULL,

NULL,

// The user id to run the service under.

userid,

// The password of the id to run the service under.

password);

 

Value of the parameter passed to the above mentioned function is :

command : c:\diradm.cmd --> script used in to invoke the require binary .

userid : NULL

Password : NULL

Service name : diradm_xyz

description: Service used to start the server

 

On running this piece of code , I see a service registered under Administrator -> Services

 

I tried to run the service from the Services panel , but I see the error on the console as :

 

Error 1053, The service did not responded to the start or control request in a timely fashion . I have debug statement in the diradmd.cmd file which should be redirected to a log file.

It seems that diradm.cmd is not called by service registered !

 

The strange part is that the same piece of code works fine on Windows 2003 server so what I am missing for Windows 2008 ?

Note in case of Win 2003 , I have set the dependency on Lan Manager and here I have passes it as NULL.

 

Looking forward for your suggestion ,

 

Thanks,

Romil

[F2 Staff]

There is a difference in the way services are handled. Services that would install and run on 2003 don't work on 2008. I haven't had a chance to look deeper into the difference. I really should take the time because I know this type of problem will hit me when I start to migrate clients from 2003 to Windows 2008 Server.

Please post what you find and I will do the same.

[romilshah]

Sure , plz post ur update in case you get some break through in this problem .