Running compiled windows service python script

[Mike Driscoll]

On May 13, 5:15 am, Aspersieman <aspersie... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a windows service (attached file). I basically just calls another
> script every 60 seconds. I can install, start and stop this service as
> expected with:
>     ParseMailboxService.py install | start | stop
>
> The problem is: if I create an exe of this script (all required modules
> are included in the exe) with gui2exe (a frontend to py2exe) I can
> install the service - but not start it. The error it returns is "Error
> starting service: The service did not respond to the start or control
> request in a timely fashion."
>
> Is there something I need to additionally include in the compiled exe? I
> have manually included the following modules:
>     * servicemanager
>     * win32con
>     * win32evtlogutil
>     * win32serviceutil
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help.
>
> Regards
>
> Nicol
>
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>  ParseMailBoxService.py
> 2KDownload

I recommend re-posting to the PyWin32 user's group and possibly the
py2exe group.

http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/py2exe-users

Alternatively, you can check these links out that are about creating
Windows Services in Python:

http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/running-python-script-as-windows.html
http://essiene.blogspot.com/2005/04/python-windows-services.html
http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

Hope that helps!

Mike