Windows 2000 compatibility notes.

[nssm.git] / README.txt

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+++ b/README.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager\r
 NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager\r

-Version 2.7, 2011-01-25\r
+Version 2.11, 2012-04-04\r

 \r
 NSSM is a service helper program similar to srvany and cygrunsrv.  It can \r
 start any application as an NT service and will restart the service if it \r
 \r
 NSSM is a service helper program similar to srvany and cygrunsrv.  It can \r
 start any application as an NT service and will restart the service if it \r


@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ NSSM also has a graphical service installer and remover.
 \r
 Full documentation can be found online at\r
 \r
 \r
 Full documentation can be found online at\r
 \r

-                           http://iain.cx/src/nssm/\r
+                              http://nssm.cc/\r

 \r
 Since version 2.0, the GUI can be bypassed by entering all appropriate \r
 options on the command line.\r
 \r
 Since version 2.0, the GUI can be bypassed by entering all appropriate \r
 options on the command line.\r


@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Since version 2.3, NSSM logs to the Windows event log more elegantly.
 \r
 Since version 2.5, NSSM respects environment variables in its parameters.\r
 \r
 \r
 Since version 2.5, NSSM respects environment variables in its parameters.\r
 \r

+Since version 2.8, NSSM tries harder to shut down the managed application\r
+gracefully and throttles restart attempts if the application doesn't run\r
+for a minimum amount of time.\r
+\r
+Since version 2.11, NSSM respects srvany's AppEnvironment parameter.\r

 \r
 Usage\r
 -----\r
 \r
 Usage\r
 -----\r


@@ -79,6 +84,11 @@ of the failure and don't want to wait you can use the Windows service console
 (where the service will be shown in Paused state) to send a continue signal to\r
 NSSM and it will retry within a few seconds.\r
 \r
 (where the service will be shown in Paused state) to send a continue signal to\r
 NSSM and it will retry within a few seconds.\r
 \r

+By default, NSSM defines "a timely manner" to be within 1500 milliseconds.\r
+You can change the threshold for the service by setting the number of\r
+milliseconds as a REG_DWORD value in the registry at\r
+HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppThrottle.\r
+\r

 NSSM will look in the registry under\r
 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppExit for\r
 string (REG_EXPAND_SZ) values corresponding to the exit code of the application.\r
 NSSM will look in the registry under\r
 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppExit for\r
 string (REG_EXPAND_SZ) values corresponding to the exit code of the application.\r


@@ -160,6 +170,9 @@ Building NSSM from source
 NSSM is known to compile with Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual\r
 Studio 2008.\r
 \r
 NSSM is known to compile with Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual\r
 Studio 2008.\r
 \r

+NSSM will also compile with Visual Studio 2010 but the resulting executable\r
+will not run on versions of Windows older than XP SP2.\r
+\r

 \r
 Credits\r
 -------\r
 \r
 Credits\r
 -------\r


@@ -169,7 +182,12 @@ Thanks to Joel Reingold for spotting a command line truncation bug.
 Thanks to Arve Knudsen for spotting that child processes of the monitored\r
 application could be left running on service shutdown, and that a missing\r
 registry value for AppDirectory confused NSSM.\r
 Thanks to Arve Knudsen for spotting that child processes of the monitored\r
 application could be left running on service shutdown, and that a missing\r
 registry value for AppDirectory confused NSSM.\r

-Thanks to Peter Wagemans and Laszlo Kereszt for suggesting throttling restarts.\r
+Thanks to Peter Wagemans and Laszlo Keresztfalvi for suggesting throttling restarts.\r
+Thanks to Eugene Lifshitz for finding an edge case in CreateProcess() and for\r
+advising how to build messages.mc correctly in paths containing spaces.\r
+Thanks to Rob Sharp for pointing out that NSSM did not respect the\r
+AppEnvironment registry value used by srvany.\r
+Thanks to Szymon Nowak for help with Windows 2000 compatibility.\r

 \r
 Licence\r
 -------\r
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 Licence\r
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