I am stumped with a non-responsive Win32::Daemon service on my hands. (background: I am using ActiveState Perl 5.8.4 on a WinXP box).

First, I created a complicated perl script as a Win32 service. The service installs perfectly, but fails to start with "Error 1053: Could not start the ComplicatedTask on Local Computer". The Event Viewer says "Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the ComplicatedTask service to connect."

Then I pared down my script to a really simple perl script. Just a simple

print LOG "hello\n";

No cigar. Still the same errors as above.

I have read the node Win32::Daemon and put the little 

BEGIN {
  open( STDERR, ">>D:/htdocs/myservicelog.err" ) or die "invisible err
+or";
  warn "$0 started ".localtime().$/;
}

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as prescribed by tye. The log gets a dutiful 

complicatedtask.pl started Mon Dec 27 14:38:24 2004
etc.

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My code is in a standard Win32::Daemon service control loop as in 

open LOG, ">>mylogfile.txt" or die;

# Start the service control loop
Win32::Daemon::StartService();
while( SERVICE_STOPPED != ( $State = Win32::Daemon::State() ) ){
    if( SERVICE_STARTING == $State ) {
        # some service startup code
        ......
        Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING );
    }
    elsif( SERVICE_PAUSE_PENDING == $State ) {
        Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_PAUSED );
        next;
    }
    elsif( SERVICE_CONTINUE_PENDING == $State ) {
        Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING );
        next;
    }
    elsif( SERVICE_STOP_PENDING == $State ) {
        # some service shutdown code
        ............
        Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_STOPPED );
        next;
    }
    elsif( SERVICE_CONTROL_SHUTDOWN == $State ) {
        # Request x seconds to shutdown...
        Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_STOP_PENDING, 45 );
        ..............
        Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_STOPPED );
        next;
    }
    elsif( SERVICE_RUNNING == $State ) {
        doMyStuff();
        sleep 30;
    }
    else {
        # Un-handled control messages
        Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING );
    }
    sleep 5;
}
Win32::Daemon::StopService();

sub doMyStuff {
  print LOG "hello\n";
}

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What now? Is there any other error log that I can turn on that actually reports on _why_ the service didn't respond in a timely fashion?

Btw, the task script works fine when not installed as a service.

In reply to Win32::Daemon installed service fails to start by punkish

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