Open jordansissel opened 10 years ago
You can use powershell (and batch, if you're crazy) to add new windows services. See Powershell's New-Service
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849830.aspx
Basically, get some credentials (Get-Credentials
) and pass them to New-Service
and boom you've got a service.
You can also do it with the older sc
command, but powershell's interface is much nicer to work with, imo.
My idea here is that pleaserun for windows will create a powershell script to run that installs the service; powershell for reusability outside the host generating it ;)
is there no way to call the .Net API behind New-Service directly, rather than relying on Powershell as a mediator?
@igalic My thoughts on this were that pleaserun should output a thing you can install somewhere else.
So, if pleaserun can only be run on the system you are installing a service on, I think it misses a useful case where you could package a 'service'.
For example, we could package an init script or a systemd service configuration, so I think it makes sense to be able to provide a packagable windows service output, and that probably means a powershell script or something exportable to the host you want to run it on.
At least, that's my thinking, anyway.
A long-term project idea is to have a webapp that you can say "Make me a service configuration that does X" and it hands you a script to do it. If pleaserun was required to run on your system itself, this would fall down a bit ;)
This one is finicky. You probably need a wrapper because Windows isn't file-based.
myservice.exe install