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Can Cumulus MX be run as a Windows Service?

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I can't find much referring to this question although I know it was asked about the previous version.

I can use sc.exe to create the service but I wanted to check whether it was recommended or not.
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I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work, as long as the user it runs under has the right permissions, but I haven't tried it myself. At some point I hope to look at building in the option to run it as a service.
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Ok - I wondered whether the CTRL-C to stop did a graceful shutdown which stopping the service would not?
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I'd assumed that the wrapper would send the correct signal to the application when the service was stopped. The best thing to do is just try it with a test installation, the diags file will show whether it was closed cleanly.
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I am running Cumulus MX as a service and it works great.
You might also look at this app to create the service for you:
http://www.pirmasoft.de/cms/freeware/runassvc To uninstall the service you go to add/remove programs (appwiz.cpl). Make sure you run RunAsSvc.exe as admin/elevated or it doesn't create the service.
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