I am trying to run a SQL Anywhere 10 as a Windows Service. This was
working for a while and now (after numerous service adds and deletes)
it is not. I am using exactly the same syntax.

I register the service using:

dbsvc -as -y -w my_service "{path to dbsrv10.exe}" "{path to db
file}"

I try to start the service using:

dbsvc -u my_service

The error messages that I receive are particularly unhelpful:

SQL Anywhere Service Utility Version 10.0.1.3488
Service my_service start pending.
Error starting service my_service.

The Event Log entries do not provide any further info.

If I execute this fragment of the service registration the server
starts up as expected:

"{path to dbsrv10.exe}" "{path to db file}"

Can someone please help?

Just two suggestions:

1. As you are going to establish a Network server service, I suspect that
you should add the type parameter (i.e. -t Network)
2. I would add logging for both dbsvc and dbsrv10 as in the following (taken
from the help):
dbsvc -o c:\DbsvcOut.txt -t Network -y -as -w my_service "{path to
dbsrv10.exe}" -n mysrv -o c:\DbsrvOut.txt "{path to db file}"

Hope that will show more helpful output...

Volker


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Application log does not record anything meaningful?

If it does not, change your server to "interact with desktop" mode for
diagnostics.

Jason Grundy wrote: