[rt.cpan.org #73715] Win32::Daemon::CreateService() must be run with administrator privileges on Windows 7

Tue Jan 03 17:02:49 2012: Request 73715 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by [email protected]
       Queue: Win32-Daemon
     Subject: Win32::Daemon::CreateService() must be run with administrator privileges on Windows 7
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       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73715 >


Hello,
 
I'm new to working with Windows and hit some problems trying to install a
Perl script as a service under Windows 7. Specifically CreateService() would
return false indicating an error but the error string from
Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::Daemon::GetLastError() ) indicated there was no
error, like this: Failed to add service: The operation completed
successfully.
 
This was difficult to troubleshoot but ultimately I was able to successfully
install a service once I ran CreateService() inside a cygwin instance that
was launched "as administrator" - it wasn't immediately obvious in the docs
that this is a requirement but it probably should be.
 
Cheers,
 
Tyler