Hi,

I'm reading this article about services:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Daemons_and_Services

I have created onStart event which should create text file in my home directory but nothing happens:

procedure TDaemon1.DataModuleStart(Sender: TCustomDaemon; var Ok: Boolean);
var
  sl: TStringList;
begin
  sl := TStringList.Create;
  try
    sl.Add('test');
    sl.SaveToFile('/home/dibo/test.txt');
  finally
    sl.Free;
  end;
end;

My run script return: Starting test Service: [OK]
And I see my service by command: ps aux
I also created DaemonDef for my TDaemon1 class. What I'm missing?

Lazarus stable release 1.0.6
FPC stable 2.6.0
Linux Mint (debian) 64bit
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Did you specify the -r option ?

Can you post complete sources ?

Michael.

I attached simple project. Run script included (based on script from lazarus wiki). Change paths in this script and also change output file path in TDaemon1 class.
I copied "run_my_service.sh" script into /etc/init.d/ and then: sudo service run_my_service.sh start

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If you run it, you'll see that in syslog errors appear:

Feb 25 15:52:52 home test_service: [Error] Access violation

Michael.

Oh thanks! I didn't know that daemon is based on threading and on linux "-dUseCThreads" is needed. Now everything is working. Thanks -------------- next part --------------
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