Installation of Firebird (3, 4) with install_service.bat and blanks as servicename on Windows

[realcolaflasche]

Hi,

installing with firebird with install_service.bat and blanks as servicename doesen't work: works: install_service.bat "123" does not work: install_service.bat "1 2 3"

Message: "2" cannot be processed syntactically at this point. (Or something like that. I'm using german windows ant translated this by deepl).

Solution: Change the install & uninstall.bat, and change the "%1" to "%~1", only the quoted passages.

install_service.bat @echo off if "%~1"=="" ( instreg install -z ) setlocal set INSTALL_SERVICE=install -z set START_SERVICE=start if not "%~1"=="" ( set INSTALL_SERVICE=%INSTALL_SERVICE% -n %1 set START_SERVICE=%START_SERVICE% -n %1 ) instsvc %INSTALL_SERVICE% instsvc %START_SERVICE% endlocal @echo. @echo Firebird installed and started as a service using @echo architecture specified in firebird.conf. @echo.

uninstall_service.bat: @echo off setlocal set REMOVE_SERVICE=remove -z set STOP_SERVICE=stop if not "%~1"=="" ( set STOP_SERVICE=%STOP_SERVICE% -n %1 set REMOVE_SERVICE=%REMOVE_SERVICE% -n %1 ) instsvc %STOP_SERVICE% instsvc %REMOVE_SERVICE% endlocal

if "%~1"=="" (instreg remove -z)

regards, Jan

[reevespaul]

I'm not sure that whitespace in a service name is a good idea. Perhaps it would be better to try and reject any attempt to create such a service name.

[aafemt]

They are perfectly valid. What we should do is to deprecate instsvc and use sc instead.

[realcolaflasche]

It works, we use servicenames with space since years. You have only to correct the batch files as in my 1st post discribed.

What is sc?