Getting SERVICE_STOPPED immediately when running `test\daemon.pl`

[hakonhagland]

On Windows 10 using Strawberry Perl version 5.30.1, Win32-Daemon version 20190315. When I try to run the program daemon.pl supplied in the test folder of the distribution:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper);
use Win32::Daemon;

Win32::Daemon::StartService();
my %List;
my $SLEEP_TIMEOUT = 100; # This value is in milliseconds
my $START_TIME = time();
my ( $DB_DIR, $DB_FILE_NAME ) = ( Win32::GetFullPathName( $0 ) =~ /^(.*)\\([^\\]*)$/ );
$DB_FILE_NAME =~ s/\..*?$/.log/;
print "DB_DIR: $DB_DIR\n";
print "DB_FILE_NAME : $DB_FILE_NAME\n";
if( open( LOG, ">$DB_DIR\\$DB_FILE_NAME" ) )
{
    my $StartTime = localtime( $START_TIME );
    $| = 1;
    print LOG << "EOT"
# Service Starting
# Script: $0
# PID: $$
# Date: $StartTime
EOT
}

Log( "Starting service" );
Win32::Daemon::StartService();
Log( "Entering service loop" );
our $LastState = SERVICE_STOPPED;
our $State;
while( SERVICE_STOPPED != ( $State = Win32::Daemon::State() ) )
{
  if( SERVICE_START_PENDING == $State )
  {
    # Initialization code
    $LastState = SERVICE_RUNNING;
#    Win32::Daemon::State( [ state => SERVICE_RUNNING, error => NO_ERROR ] );
    Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING );
    Log( "Service initialized. Setting state to Running." );
  }
  elsif( SERVICE_PAUSE_PENDING == $State )
  {
    $LastState = SERVICE_PAUSED;
    Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_PAUSED );
    Log( "Pausing." );
    next;
  }
  elsif( SERVICE_CONTINUE_PENDING == $State )
  {
    $LastState = SERVICE_RUNNING;
    Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING );
    Log( "Resuming from paused state." );
    next;
  }
  elsif( SERVICE_STOP_PENDING == $State )
  {
    $LastState = SERVICE_STOPPED;
    Win32::Daemon::State( [ state => SERVICE_STOPPED, error => 1234 ] );
    Log( "Stopping service." );
    next;
  }
  else
  {
    # Take care of unhandled states by setting the State()
    # to whatever the last state was we set...
    Win32::Daemon::State( $LastState );
  }
  Log("Sleeping...");
  Win32::Sleep( $SLEEP_TIMEOUT );
}
Log( "Done");
print "StopService() return value: ", Win32::Daemon::StopService(), "\n";


sub Log
{
    my( $Message ) = @_;
    if( fileno( LOG ) )
    {
        print LOG "[" . localtime() . "] $Message\n";
    }
}

When I run this program it exits immediately with output:

> C:\Users\hakon\perl\service\deamon>perl p.pl
DB_DIR: C:\Users\hakon\perl\service\deamon
DB_FILE_NAME : p.log
StopService() return value: 1

The output of the log file p.log is:

> C:\Users\hakon\perl\service\deamon>type p.log
# Service Starting
# Script: p.pl
# PID: 8900
# Date: Tue Jun 30 20:01:46 2020
[Tue Jun 30 20:01:46 2020] Starting service
[Tue Jun 30 20:01:46 2020] Entering service loop
[Tue Jun 30 20:01:46 2020] Done

What am I missing here? Why am I getting SERVICE_STOPPED immediately before entering the while loop?

See also this question on stackoverflow.com

[ikegami]

The scripts expects to be run as a service, but you run it from the console. See "Example 3" in the docs for how to set it up as a service.

[hakonhagland]

@ikegami I tried to start it first as you suggested using this script create.pl :

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::Daemon;
my $ServicePath = $^X;  #'C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe';
my $ServiceParams = 'C:\Users\hakon\perl\service\daemon\p.pl';

my %service_info = (
    name    => 'my test service',
    display => 'my service',
    path    => $ServicePath,
    description => 'simple service test',
    parameters => $ServiceParams,
    service_type => SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS,
    start_type => SERVICE_AUTO_START);

if(Win32::Daemon::CreateService( \%service_info))
{
    print "successfully added \n";
}
else
{
    print "failed to add service: " . Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::Daemon::GetLastError());
}

Running the script seems to work fine:

C:\Users\hakon\perl\service\deamon>perl create.pl
successfully added

But the service daemon.pl did not start. I think the service was simply added to the system (not started). How can I start it immediately? I opened the Services app as administrator and found the service in the list of services known to the app. I then right-clicked on it and chose Start from the popup menu. This gave me the following error message:

[hakonhagland]

I think I found the error, I had misspelled the directory path to the service:

my $ServiceParams = 'C:\Users\hakon\perl\service\daemon\p.pl';

so now I can start it successfully from the Services app. But I cannot stop it from the app. I also wonder how I can start the service automatically (not using the Services app)