>Does win32-service do something special when creating a service that I'm >missing with the manual service creation? I suppose I could always run it >via the startup folder, but I thought this would be cleaner. Check out the instiki instructions for running a ruby script as a windows service: http://instiki.org/show/Running+as+a+Windows+Service Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------- http://www.peterkrantz.com/ http://www.standards-schmandards.com/