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Re: running a GUI app as a service with cygrunsrv
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Rob Siklos <rrr at siklos dot ca>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:34:38 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: running a GUI app as a service with cygrunsrv
- References: <001f01c7de86$39414030$6901a8c0@Clarifica.local>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Rob Siklos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've searched google, but couldn't readily find an answer to this.
>
> What happens if I have a GUI application that I install as a service
> (and set the startup type to Auto) with cygrunsrv. Is this supported?
>
> I'm hoping that the window info will just be thrown away, but the app
> will still run fine.
Unlikely. The app probably expects to be able to at least pop up a
window...
> My problem is that I am trying to automate a connection to a VPN using
> the Cisco VPN Client. The client which I must use is a GUI application,
> but if the system reboots for some reason, I want the client to start
> even if nobody is there to log in.
I think you want the --interactive/-i flag to cygrunsrv. Note that this
requires you to run the service as SYSTEM, and, I believe, is no longer
supported on Win2k3 and Vista...
HTH,
Igor
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