Re: Killing caRepeater on Windows 10

["Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

On 1/14/20 12:19 AM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> Has anyone ever spun caRepeater as a windows service?
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/services/svc-cpp

It looks like processes have to explicitly say that they should be run as a service for the standard Microsoft tool 'sc create' to work. However I have just managed to set up our standard caRepeater.exe to start automatically on my system using
NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager (great name!) which seems to be the recommended way to do this. I actually installed it with
C:\>choco install nssm
I love Chocolatey, it makes installing software on Windows so much easier than doing it by hand. Then created and started the new service using
C:\>nssm install "CA Repeater" C:\epics\bin\caRepeater.exe
C:\>nssm start "CA Repeater"
Now the repeater appears in the task manager as a background process, and should start automatically whenever the machine comes up. The nssm will also restart it if it ever dies for some reason.

Note that I copied a statically built caRepeater.exe into the above directory, I don't want to use the binary from one of my build directories because I'd have to stop and restart the service every time I rebuilt that copy of Base. You can use the caRepeater.exe
 from any version of Base, they all do exactly the same thing.

HTH,

- Andrew
-- 
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