NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager for Windows.
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InfluxDB 1.8.3-1 as service on Windows10 using NSSM
hoping you can help me!
I'm writing a script to install some services in windows.
One of the services is InfluxDB. I need to use NSSM.
But that's the problem.
If I use the nssm gui nssm.exe install and then set those parameters like following (and…

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Pyupdater loops when a new version arrived when using nssm
My program consists of the following steps:
check for update
if an update exists, download it, extract and restart the program
run update checks in a new thread every 30s
run the main program that prints the word YAY every 5s
Here is the code of…

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Converting PS1 (calling theFileSystemWatcher class) to a Service using NSSM
I created a powershell script that transfers any created file (using WinSCP) to a remote server, then moves the file to another local folder. The script works perfectly; however, it needs to start on server startup. Creating a service is the best…

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Using a BAT file as service with NSSM
I am writing a .BAT script which goes as follows:
cd "C:\Program Files\WinRAR"
winrar.exe
Double clicking this batch file works fine and openes winrar for me....now i try installing it as service with NSSM
i place nssm.exe in the same directory as…

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NSSM service not executing batch script but was created and starts successfully
I want to automatically start my node server on the VM's reboot using the following batch script
@echo off
cd /D c:/Application Services/servers/dashboard/server
echo Starting Dashboard Server In Production: port 8446
npm run prod
the "prod" script…

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NSSM startup batch scripts without visible console
I am not able to make NSSM runs a batch script with the console visible at desktop.
I already tried to set it as a interactive process but still its not showing.
Any idea?
Below are my commands to create the service.
nssm install "MyNginxStartup"…

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NSSM - Trying to access Software/Google/DriveFS/Share
I'm using NSSM to run a dotnet core app as a Windows service, which works really well.
However, I've noticed an error when I run nssm install MyAppName, which loads a window to set up the service. When I Select the executable to install, I notice…

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NSSM Python Service pausing due to module error
I am trying to run a simple python script using NSSM (Non Sucking Service Manager) but I am failing to do so.
Error I am getting:
Unexpected status SERVICE_PAUSED in response to START control
I checked the error log file and it says the following…

Abhik Chakraborty
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NSSM windows service still running after shutdown
I have a .net service installed and launched by NSSM, sometimes the service can shutdown with an emergency code, it completely stops any actions, but status still remains "Running". If I install and launch service via SC, service stops successfully…

Dmitriy Marov
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AppRotateFile nssm
I would like to keep only the last backup rotated file with nssm
WriteRegDWORD HKLM $REG_DWORD "AppRotateFiles" 1
WriteRegDWORD HKLM $REG_DWORD "AppRotateOnline" 1
#WriteRegDWORD HKLM $REG_DWORD "AppRotateBytes" 314572800
WriteRegDWORD HKLM…

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NSSM stdout redirect is filled with strange characters
I tried to set up an nssm service for starting a node-js module using the NSSM service editor GUI.
This worked fine for the command itself, node-js starts fine. The problem was when I tried to redirect the output, on the i/o tab, to a log file,…

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How to handle infinity loop with service using PowerShell?
I have a powershell script contain of inifinity loop. I want to create a service using NSSM https://nssm.cc/description
But the service is not working once I do some process in the script.
This is how I create the service.
$NSSMPath = (Get-Command…

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NSSM - Install windows service to run daphne server for django channels
I run the commands on a windows machine as shown below to start my server,
D:\django_channels> django_channels_env\Scripts\activate
(django_channels_env) D:\django_channels\djanog_project> daphne -e…

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Nodejs as Windows Service can't read files on network drive
I have developped a little app in NodeJs which read and write some files. These files are stored on a shared folder of my local network. Everything was working until I tried to start NodeJs as Windows Service through NSSM (a little .exe that allows…

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When I'm running jar as a service with the help of nssm the JOptionPane.showOptionDialog() is not showing up
My program has the piece of code which pop-up the window dialogue box notifying the user about the ongoing process for this I'm using JOptionPane.showOptionDialog()
But when I'm starting the program as a service instead of running a jar file, I'm…

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