[python-win32] Python Service does not start at Windows boot but at user's logon

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Tue Jun 10 01:20:42 CEST 2008


> I may have found an issue for my problem : I've made the service RpcSs
> (Remote Procedure Call SubSystem)
> dependent from my own service. Thus, RpcSs will only start when my own
> service has started.
> It seems to work. A drawback is that 

Another drawback is that if your service fails for any reason, a fairly
important part of Windows will also fail to work.  The RPCSS service isn't
*really* dependent on your service; abusing service dependencies for this
reason is (IMO) courting much bigger problems.

Cheers,

Mark



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