RE: [pywin32-bugs] Problem starting a service.

[Mark H. <mha...@sk...>]

It appears you need to put that "foo" on your sys.path - I thought we
handled some cases when it is not, but obviously not this one.

Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pyw...@li...
> [mailto:pyw...@li...]On Behalf Of Jim
> Panetta
> Sent: Friday, 19 November 2004 2:19 PM
> To: pyw...@li...
> Subject: [pywin32-bugs] Problem starting a service.
>
>
> The example service file win32/demos/service/pipeTestService.py is
> showing very different behavior depending on *where* the file
> is located:
>
> 1)  When located under site-packages/win32/..., the service
> starts with
> no problem.
>
> 2)  When started under site-packages/foo/pipeTestService.py,
> the service
> does not start:
>
> C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\foo>copy
> ..\win32\demos\service\pipeTestService.py pipeTestService.py
>
> C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\foo>python pipeTestService.py install
> Installing service PyPipeTestService to Python class
> C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\foo\pipeTestService.TestPipeService
> Service installed
>
> C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\foo>python pipeTestService.py
> --wait 5 start
> Starting service PyPipeTestService
> Error starting service: The service did not respond to the start or
> control request in a timely fashion.
>
> A look at the event log gives:
> > Event Type:	Error
> > Event Source:	Python Service
> > Event Category:	None
> > Event ID:	4
> > Date:		11/18/2004
> > Time:		7:14:22 PM
> > User:		N/A
> > Computer:	GITOW1
> > Description:
> > Python could not import the service's module
> >
> > exceptions.ImportError: No module named pipeTestService
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm running Python 2.3.4, pywin32 build 202 or 203.  (Tried both)
>
>    --Jim Panetta
>
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