[erlang-questions] Running a release as a Windows service with erlsrv.exe and start_erl.exe

[Siri Hansen]

Hi Francis, Ben!

This problem exists on all windows platforms. Correction will be included in
R14B04.

Regards
/siri

2011/6/10 Francis Joanis <francis.joanis@REDACTED>

> Hi,
>
> Do you know if this issue only affects Windows Server 2008 or does it also
> happen on Windows Server 2003?
>
> Thanks,
> Francis
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Ben Godfrey <ben@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Siri,
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to help?
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On 7 June 2011 09:11, Siri Hansen <erlangsiri@REDACTED> wrote:
>> > Hi Ben!
>> > Unfortunately, the release handling for windows, including erlsrv.erl
>> and
>> > start_erl.c, is broken. This was discovered not long ago, after
>> refreshing
>> > the release_handler test suite where these tests were skipped on
>> windows. We
>> > are currently working on this issue, and plan to release a correction as
>> > soon as possible.
>> > Regards
>> > siri@REDACTED
>> >
>> > 2011/6/6 Ben Godfrey <ben@REDACTED>
>> >>
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> I've been trying to deploy an Erlang application as a Windows service
>> >> and not having much luck.
>> >>
>> >> I built a release package using rebar. I'm registering the service as
>> >> follows:
>> >>
>> >>    c:\erl5.8.3\erts-5.8.3\bin\erlsrv.exe add Rolf -c "Collects system
>> >> data for monitoring." -w c:\rolf -m
>> >> c:\erl5.8.3\erts-5.8.3\bin\start_erl.exe -debugtype reuse -args
>> >> "-setcookie xyz123 ++ -reldir c:\rolf\releases"
>> >>
>> >> This fails with the error "Failed to query BinDir of release." in the
>> >> .debug file. Looking at the code for start_erl.exe, this is related to
>> >> registry keys. I can't see any sign of any keys which match the
>> >> pattern described in the source, but curiously the preceding call to
>> >> open a registry key succeeds [2].
>> >>
>> >> Any one have any idea about any of this stuff?
>> >>
>> >> Server is Windows Server 2008.
>> >>
>> >> Ben
>> >>
>> >> [1]
>> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/dev/erts/etc/win32/start_erl.c#L364
>> >> [2]
>> https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/dev/erts/etc/win32/start_erl.c#L342
>> >>
>> >> --
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