Re: win2k service issues

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

The MSVC5 port is quite experimental.  If it works, great.  If
not, feel free to submit patches.

As far as what command lines options slapd should or shouldn't
take, I'll defer to that to other developers.

Kurt

At 01:33 PM 2001-12-06, Mike  Gerdts wrote:
>I have been able to successfully build OpenLDAP 2.0.18 on Win2k, but am
>having some troubles with the way that it installs itself as a service. 
>I know my way around a UNIX box (admin and programming) quite well, but
>am rather new to Windows administration and programming.
>
>When I run "slapd.exe install", it installs itself as a service
>properly.  I can start it with `net start "openldap directory service"',
>and can stop it in a similar mannner.  I am having troubles, however
>with making it start automatically on reboot.  From reading the source
>code (nt_svc.c) it looks as though I should be able do do something
>like:
>
>    slapd install openldap openldap auto
>
>Unfortunately, after installing the service in that manner, I cannot
>start it.  I get:
>
>    C:\some long path\> net start openldap
>    
>    The service is not responding to the control function.
>    
>    More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186.
>
>Where should I start looking for the reason that it will not start?
>
>Also, when installing the openldap service, I would like to be able to
>be able to tell it to use a specific config file, url, etc.  When I take
>a look at the registry entries that Apache creates, I see
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Apache\Parameters.  If
>I wanted to modify slapd to be able to define parameters when run as a
>service, should that be done with ChangeServiceConfig(),
>ChangeServiceConfig2(), or with RegCreateKey()?
>
>And one last question... would there be opposition to making install
>take standard command line arguments rather than relying on positional
>parameters?  I was thinking of something along the lines of:
>
>slapd install [-s serviceName] [-d displayName] [-a <auto|manual>]
>        [-f executableFile] [-p "service parameters"]
>
>Mike