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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Adding a Windows service using sc

The ‘sc‘ utility can be used to create, delete or edit a Windows service. It can be used for any executables (as opposed to installutil, which can only be used for .Net services). Its help is available using sc /help (and is also available on MSDN); however, I found the output slightly confusing, so for my own reference here’s an example for creating a service for the Subversion server:

sc create svnserve binPath= "\"C:\Program Files\CollabNet Subversion Server\svnserve.exe\" 
  --service -r \"c:\svn_repository\" --listen-port \"3690\"" DisplayName= "Subversion Server"

This passes two parameters, the binPath and the DisplayName (the rest are the directives Subversion expects when running as a service). The trick here is the space between the ‘=’ sign after the parameter name and the parameter value; the service won’t be installed otherwise.

posted by Nick at 12:53 pm - filed in windows  

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