Phaka Service Wrapper

A native windows service wrapper that can run applications as services.

Getting Started

Familiarize yourself with the documention.

Prerequisites

You'll need the following

• An application you'd like to run as a service, hello.exe for example, stored on the local computer. We'll use c:\tools as an example.

• Any supported Windows platform. This has been tested on Windows 10, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016.

Installing

Download the latest version of wrapper.exe for your platform to the same location of the application.

It is recommended that you rename wrapper.exe to something that better suites your purpose as this will reduce confusion for users and security monitoring systems when there are multiple copies used on a computer. For the purpose of this document, we'll use with wrapper.exe and you'll need to rename it accordingly.

In the same directory as wrapper.exe, create a configuration file wrapper.cfg with the following contents.

[Unit]
Name=phaka-hello-service
CommandLine=hello.exe
Title=Phaka Hello Service
Description=Provides secure storage and retrieval of hello messages to users and applications.

This configuration file tells Phaka Service Wrapper that it should wrap hello. The service will be named phaka-hello-service and when users view it in the Services MMC plugin, should be shown as Phaka Hello Service, with the appropiate description.

The Windows Service can be installed through several means:

• Windows Installer
• Command Line

To create the Windows Service, open a Command Prompt or PowerShell as an Administrator and run the following commands.

cd c:\tools
wrapper install
wrapper start

This changes the directory to c:\tools where wrapper.exe was installed. It then installs and starts the Windows Service.

In order to see it function, look at c:\tools\wrapper.log and you'll see the output of hello.exe.

Built With

• Visual Studio 2017
• Windows 10

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• WernerStrydom

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• WinSW