My 2 cents (and I am *not* an expert!):

The contents of the CMD file won't show why it didn't start. You need to
troubleshoot the failure action. My first thought is what account
privilege does the service run under and is it capable of running your
script?

StephenC.

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>  Hi,
>  
>  We have a service that sometimes crsahes, and afterwards a 
>  remote service
>  also needs to be restarted for connection reasons. That part 
>  I have already
>  done, so this probably isn't too perl specific.
>  I have cmd script that cd's to the directory where the perl 
>  script is and
>  starts it. This cmd script is entered as the corrective action for the
>  failing service. My perl program would write a log too.
>  >From what I can see, even the cmd script doesn't start 
>  (can't see it in
>  process explorer).
>  Any idea what could be wrong here?
>  
>  the cmd looks like this:
>  
>  D:
>  cd \scripts\FM_Restart
>  echo running? >>d:\scripts\fm_restart\batlog.txt
>  e:\perl\bin\perl.exe D:\scripts\FM_Restart\fmstart.pl
>  
>  Lars
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