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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#202020'>On Windows you can place the .erlang and .erlang.cookie files in ERL_TOP\usr. It’s not a per user location but safer then HOME. (By default a service runs as System user and you can try setting HOME in the ‘System variables’ section of the Environment Variables window. Alternatively you can specify a different user for the service, but that user needs ‘Log on as service’ permission.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#202020'>For your other question I have no experience but according to the documentation you should try invoking start_erl from erl_srv instead of erl.exe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#202020'>Janos<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#202020'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org [mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@erlang.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Wes James<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 08, 2013 11:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> erlang-questions@erlang.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [erlang-questions] two questions -- -boot in erlsrv and .erlang.cookies on windows<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I have -boot working on linux. Now I'm trying to get it to work with erlsrv for windows. I put the -boot in the args part of erlsrv, but it doesn't seem to take. Any ideas how to get this to work?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Also, I've tried several different folders for .cookie.erlang on windows and I can't get it to take. Even putting it in my c:\Users\username and run the erlang app, it doesn't seem to be picked up. If I run with -setcookie, it works fine. I run "set" on windows in cmd.exe and see the HOME var is set. Also, if I can get this to work, where would the .erlang.cookie go when run as a service. I just ran erl.exe and it did not create an .erlang.cookie in my c:\Users\username folder (after I moved one that I had manually put there). Is it supposed to create one on windows?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<br><br>Wes<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>