Changeset 307 for trunk/docs/HOWTO-samhain-on-windows.html

Timestamp:

Dec 3, 2010, 10:44:38 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

katerina

Message:

Fix for ticket #229 (malfunction on CentOS 4.8 / gcc4), documentation update.

File:

• trunk/docs/HOWTO-samhain-on-windows.html (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/docs/HOWTO-samhain-on-windows.html

@@ -278 +278 @@
 the Cygwin filesystem view, i.e. <tt>/cygdrive/c/...</tt>, otherwise
 samhain may not work from a pure DOS shell, and may not run as a Windows 
-service.
+service [Rainer Wichmann].
 </p>
 </div>
@@ -399 +399 @@
 </li>
 </ul>
+<div class="block">
+<p>
+It seems that start/stop/restart the service does not work if samhain 
+is configured to run as a daemon, because the Windows service manager
+cannot track the forked daemon process.
+</p>
+<p>Therefore, if you run Samhain as a Windows service, it might be better
+to configure it as a 'normal' process which does not fork a daemon:
+<ul>
+  <li>
+    Set 'Daemon = no' in the samhainrc configuration file.
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    Edit the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-&gt;SYSTEM-&gt;CurrentControlSet-&gt;Services-&gt;Samhain->Parameters to add a string value named 'AppParameters', with
+    the value '--forever'.
+  </li>
+</ul>
+[Rainer Wichmann].
+</p>
+</div>
 <p>
 Also see <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q137890/">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q137890/</a> for information regarding the creation of a