X-Git-Url: http://git.iain.cx/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.txt;h=fd47350881152956fb1dd788313831b511994075;hb=15699a168713b96dc70505db3d131d4c69a739d1;hp=3b8f25c24ef5a9f52870fb5066def9945f62d10d;hpb=8d855fdbce4ba0b8cfeda551f137434731385c23;p=nssm.git diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 3b8f25c..fd47350 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager -Version 2.7, 2011-01-25 +Version 2.13, 2012-05-20 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 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ NSSM also has a graphical service installer and remover. Full documentation can be found online at - http://iain.cx/src/nssm/ + http://nssm.cc/ Since version 2.0, the GUI can be bypassed by entering all appropriate options on the command line. @@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ Since version 2.3, NSSM logs to the Windows event log more elegantly. Since version 2.5, NSSM respects environment variables in its parameters. +Since version 2.8, NSSM tries harder to shut down the managed application +gracefully and throttles restart attempts if the application doesn't run +for a minimum amount of time. + +Since version 2.11, NSSM respects srvany's AppEnvironment parameter. + +Since version 2.13, NSSM is translated into French. +Thanks François-Régis Tardy. Usage ----- @@ -165,6 +173,9 @@ Building NSSM from source NSSM is known to compile with Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. +NSSM will also compile with Visual Studio 2010 but the resulting executable +will not run on versions of Windows older than XP SP2. + Credits ------- @@ -174,7 +185,13 @@ 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. -Thanks to Peter Wagemans and Laszlo Kereszt for suggesting throttling restarts. +Thanks to Peter Wagemans and Laszlo Keresztfalvi for suggesting throttling restarts. +Thanks to Eugene Lifshitz for finding an edge case in CreateProcess() and for +advising how to build messages.mc correctly in paths containing spaces. +Thanks to Rob Sharp for pointing out that NSSM did not respect the +AppEnvironment registry value used by srvany. +Thanks to Szymon Nowak for help with Windows 2000 compatibility. +Thanks to François-Régis Tardy for French translation. Licence -------