[Box Backup] BoxBackup as a Windows Service (Cygwin)

[Ben Summers]

On 15 Sep 2004, at 18:07, Pascal Lalonde wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 12:15, Ben Summers wrote:
>> On 14 Sep 2004, at 16:08, Pascal Lalonde wrote:
>>
>>> Did anyone have success at starting BoxBackup as a service under
>>> Windows
>>> (Cygwin)?
>>>
>>> I do a:
>>> cygrunsrv -I boxbackup -p /usr/local/bin/bbackup.exe
>>>
>>> Then:
>>> cygrunsrv -S boxbackup
>>>
>>> I get the error:
>>> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1058:
>>> The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or 
>>> because
>>> it has no enabled devices associated with it.
>>>
>>> I noticed that when installing sshd as a service via ssh-host-config,
>>> the script passes -D to sshd, which tells sshd not to fork in the
>>> background. Maybe boxbackup should have a similar option? Although 
>>> I'm
>>> not sure if that is the problem.
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>
>> To avoid it forking, do
>>
>>    bbackupd -c /path/to/config/file SINGLEPROCESS
>>
>> You must have an absolute reference to the config file, and everything
>> be in that order.
> I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but:
> /usr/local/bin/bbackupd -c /etc/box/bbackupd.conf SINGLEPROCESS
>
> starts a forked bbackupd, just as "bbackupd" would.
> I've tried this on OpenBSD 3.5, with Boxbackup 0.07PLUS3.

Ah, you're right. That should be

   /usr/local/bin/bbackupd /etc/box/bbackupd.conf SINGLEPROCESS

This is only really a debug thing, don't consider this actual 
documentation for it or anything!

Ben