NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager\r
-Version 2.9, 2011-02-28\r
+Version 2.16, 2012-12-01\r
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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
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Full documentation can be found online at\r
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- http://iain.cx/src/nssm/\r
+ http://nssm.cc/\r
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Since version 2.0, the GUI can be bypassed by entering all appropriate \r
options on the command line.\r
gracefully and throttles restart attempts if the application doesn't run\r
for a minimum amount of time.\r
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+Since version 2.11, NSSM respects srvany's AppEnvironment parameter.\r
+\r
+Since version 2.13, NSSM is translated into French.\r
+Thanks François-Régis Tardy.\r
+\r
+Since version 2.15, NSSM is translated into Italian.\r
+Thanks Riccardo Gusmeroli.\r
+\r
+Since version 2.17, NSSM can try to shut down console applications by\r
+simulating a Control-C keypress. If they have installed a handler routine\r
+they can clean up and shut down gracefully on receipt of the event.\r
+\r
+Since version 2.17, NSSM can redirect the managed application's I/O streams\r
+to an arbitrary path.\r
+\r
+\r
Usage\r
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In the usage notes below, arguments to the program may be written in angle \r
If only the default action is set to Suicide NSSM will instead exit gracefully.\r
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+I/O redirection\r
+---------------\r
+NSSM can redirect the managed application's I/O to any path capable of being\r
+opened by CreateFile(). This enables, for example, capturing the log output\r
+of an application which would otherwise only write to the console or accepting\r
+input from a serial port.\r
+\r
+NSSM will look in the registry under\r
+HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters for the keys\r
+corresponding to arguments to CreateFile(). All are optional. If no path is\r
+given for a particular stream it will not be redirected. If a path is given\r
+but any of the other values are omitted they will be receive sensible defaults.\r
+\r
+ AppStdin: Path to receive input.\r
+ AppStdout: Path to receive output.\r
+ AppStderr: Path to receive error output.\r
+\r
+Parameters for CreateFile() are providing with the "AppStdinShareMode",\r
+"AppStdinCreationDisposition" and "AppStdinFlagsAndAttributes" values (and\r
+analogously for stdout and stderr).\r
+\r
+In general, if you want the service to log its output, set AppStdout and\r
+AppStderr to the same path, eg C:\Users\Public\service.log, and it should\r
+work. Remember, however, that the path must be accessible to the user\r
+running the service.\r
+\r
+\r
Removing services using the GUI\r
-------------------------------\r
NSSM can also remove services. Run\r
NSSM is known to compile with Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual\r
Studio 2008.\r
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+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
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Credits\r
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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 Keresztfalvi for suggesting throttling restarts.\r
-Thanks to Eugene Lifshitz for finding an edge case in CreateProcess().\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
+Thanks to François-Régis Tardy for French translation.\r
+Thanks to Emilio Frini for spotting that French was inadvertently set as\r
+the default language when the user's display language was not translated.\r
+Thanks to Riccardo Gusmeroli for Italian translation.\r
+Thanks to Eric Cheldelin for the inspiration to generate a Control-C event\r
+on shutdown.\r
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Licence\r
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git://git.iain.cx/iain / nssm.git / blobdiff