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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'>Wes,<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'>I tested your command line on Windows 7 Ultimate. When the service starts a window named ‘Interactive Services Detection’ pops up. It has a ‘View the messages’ button. Pressing that changes to an empty desktop where I can interact with an erl.exe shell, also having a similar window on that desktop to switch back to my normal environment. <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'>Next I changed the service Log on user from Local System to my account, but then neither saw the pop up nor the shell window.<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'>After running the service I found an .erlang.cookie file created in my C:\Windows folder containing the value displayed by erlang:get_cookie/0 in the service’s shell. But I found no way to use a cookie file placed elsewhere.<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> Monday, February 11, 2013 10:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> erlang-questions@erlang.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [erlang-questions] erlsrv -d console<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>When I run erlsrv -d console on win8 test machine, (should be same on win7 if you have that) I'm not getting a console. If I change it to new, I do get a debug file in -w folder. Can anyone verify this on win7/8 to see if a console opens with -d console.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My command line is:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>erlsrv add "srvc-name" -name node@nodename -d console -w C:/somepath -args "-s module"<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm ultimately trying to figure out why when erlsrv is run, a .erlang.cookie file is not being created in c:/somepath or is not being read from c:/somepath if I put a custom one there or even in ERL_TOP/usr.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Thanks,<br><br>Wes<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>