[Mono-list] Nothing happens with mono-service and EventLog.WriteEntry

[Gert Driesen]

Michael,

Did you set the MONO_EVENTLOG_TYPE environment variable ?

Checkout the mono manpage for more info.

Gert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mono-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com [mailto:mono-list-
> bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Michael Schurter
> Sent: maandag 12 februari 2007 19:51
> To: mono-list
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Nothing happens with mono-service and
> EventLog.WriteEntry
> 
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 10:42 -0600, Michael Schurter wrote:
> > I created a service in MonoDevelop, compiled it using the 2.0
> profile,
> > and run it using mono-service.
> >
> > Everything appears to work fine: Service started and stopped messages
> > show up in my syslog, the process is running, and the lock file
> exists.
> >
> > However my service doesn't seem to do anything, and none of my
> > EventLog.WriteEntry() calls seem to generate any logging information
> > (I also tried Console.WriteLine()).
> 
> Attached is a simple service template that should make a good test
> case.
> On my computer the only output I get is in my syslog:
> 
> Feb 12 12:39:56 schurter3-linux mono: ServiceTemplate.exe: Service
> ServiceTemplate started Feb 12 12:40:36 schurter3-linux mono:
> ServiceTemplate.exe: Stopping service ServiceTemplate
> 
> Those are automated messages and none of my EventLog.WriteEntry()s seem
> to work.  I've tried running my service with mono-service and mono-
> service2.
> 
> I still can't figure out how to get good debugging information.  Adding
> --trace just floods me with output, and when I add filters like "--
> trace=-N:System.XML,-N:System.IO" mono just exits immediately.
> 
> I'm really stuck...  anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Michael Schurter