[chef] Re: Re: starting background process on windows

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

Florian,

We used to use winsw to start up Chef as a service on Windows. I think this is still the mechanism used by Jenkins.

https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw

I think srvany is deprecated on Windows; the article Noah sent later is for Windows NT (!)

- Julian

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:52 AM, Florian Hehlen < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Daniel,

Thanks for the links. I got over my initial issue with a simple Process.spawn followed by Process.detach. This is obviously not enough for a production environment. But at the moment I am in the startup phase of the project and getting up and going is more important than making things bullet-proof. 

I will definitely take a look at the cookbooks you suggest. I am still new to Ruby and have to admit struggle when looking at other people's code. This is part of why my first attempts were not working. I also find myself very alone in the windows/chef world which does not help when looking for online help.

cheers,

FLorian

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