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Asked: 2026-05-10T18:02:24+00:00

Say I have a third party Application that does background work, but prints out

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Say I have a third party Application that does background work, but prints out all errors and messages to the console. This means, that currently, we have to keep a user logged on to the server, and restart the application (double-click) every time we reboot.

Not so very cool.

I was kind of sure, that there was an easy way to do this – a generic service wrapper, that can be configured with a log file for stdout and stderr.

I did check svchost.exe, but according to this site, its only for DLL stuff. Pity.

EDIT: The application needs to be started from a batch file. FireDaemon seems to do the trick, but I think it is a bit overkill, for something that can be done in <10 lines of python code… Oh well, Not Invented Here…

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  1. Check out srvany.exe from the Resource Kit. This will let run anything as a service.

    You can pass parameters in the service definition to your executable via srvany.exe so you could run a batch file as a service by seting the registry as follows:

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MyService\Parameters] 'Application'='C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe' 'AppParameters'='/C C:\\My\\Batch\\Script.cmd' 'AppDirectory'='C:\\My\\Batch'

    Note: if you set up these keys in RegEdit rather than using a file you only need single backslashes in the values.

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