Corinna, thanks for the tip --neverexits works, but not if the program that cygrunsrv starts is stopped with a kill -9 signal. Perhaps the -9 signal propagates to the cygrunsrv.exe program?
I will investigate monit. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On Jan 26 11:14, Cary Lewis wrote: >> I am using cygrunsrv to install a windows service that creates an ssh tunnel. >> >> I have configured the service to auto-restart on failures using the >> windows 7 services.msc tool. >> >> If the ssh program exists, or is killed, cygrunsrv gracefully exits, >> and the windows auto-restart logic is not invoked. >> >> Is there a way to get the auto-restart logic to work? > > Try the cygrunsrv option --neverexits. If this option is set, the > service exits without notifying Windows. SCM thinks the service has > exited prematurely and restarts it, if auto-restart has been configured. > > > HTH, > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple