Screamer has a couple of good points on permissions of services. I've run into several instances where I did not have permission to read/write to a folder. I was not catching/logging the exception correctly. If you use a tool like PerlApp/PerlSvc, they will do some logging to the Windows Event Log for you. If you are rolling your own logging, might I suggest the CPAN (Win32::EventLog).

Even though your 3rd-party-service-program-runner-thingy works for other executables, you may be running into trouble running a script through Perl. You might try moving your parent script to be a service itself and starting/stopping it through the services API, which is quite dandy. If you go this route, there are two modules that make the job quite easy, Win32::Daemon and Win32::Process. I've had a lot of success using these two modules together -- in conjunction with the afore mentioned logging module.

If you would like more specific help rather than random, "hey try this" advice, post some code so we can dig through it!

Good Luck!
Casey

In reply to Re: Freakish Perl hangs when run by Windows Service by cmilfo
in thread Freakish Perl hangs when run by Windows Service by bradlepc

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