X-Git-Url: http://git.iain.cx/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.txt;h=3ef60051d879cb2621868af5319b3c9a3d8de244;hb=fdf66ebb177e189479057ebe4e1124251c0116c3;hp=022e5ed0eecc83589099f9d05c5bd97264d810ac;hpb=8ec33edadf121345031be3d2f9d5e7c9a9a11e94;p=nssm.git diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 022e5ed..3ef6005 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager -Version 2.4, 2010-09-23 +Version 2.7, 2011-01-25 NSSM is a service helper program similar to srvany and cygrunsrv. It can start any application as an NT service and will restart the service if it @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ based on the exit code of the managed application. Since version 2.3, NSSM logs to the Windows event log more elegantly. +Since version 2.5, NSSM respects environment variables in its parameters. + Usage ----- @@ -71,7 +73,7 @@ successfully started or you send it a stop signal. NSSM will look in the registry under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\\Parameters\AppExit for -string (REG_SZ) values corresponding to the exit code of the application. +string (REG_EXPAND_SZ) values corresponding to the exit code of the application. If the application exited with code 1, for instance, NSSM will look for a string value under AppExit called "1" or, if it does not find it, will fall back to the AppExit (Default) value. You can find out the exit code @@ -97,7 +99,10 @@ of Windows you should use "Suicide" instead. If the value data is "Suicide" NSSM will simulate a crash and exit without informing the service manager. This option should only be used for -pre-Vista systems where you wish to apply a service recovery action. +pre-Vista systems where you wish to apply a service recovery action. Note +that if the monitored application exits with code 0, NSSM will only honour a +request to suicide if you explicitly configure a registry key for exit code 0. +If only the default action is set to Suicide NSSM will instead exit gracefully. Removing services using the GUI @@ -153,6 +158,9 @@ Credits Thanks to Bernard Loh for finding a bug with service recovery. Thanks to Benjamin Mayrargue (www.softlion.com) for adding 64-bit support. Thanks to Joel Reingold for spotting a command line truncation bug. +Thanks to Arve Knudsen for spotting that child processes of the monitored +application could be left running on service shutdown, and that a missing +registry value for AppDirectory confused NSSM. Licence -------