I'm not aware of the description being required for a service to run 
properly ... in order to get that issue out of the way though, you can 
access the service in the registry at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AAA

and then create key name "Description" of type REG_SZ.  IOW, with Tcl:

package require registry
set key {HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AAA}
set value "Description"
set data "This is a description"
registry set $key $value $data

and try again and see if that changes anything.

Jeff

Chuck Ferril wrote:
>  I get this in the event log (I installed with the service name AAA):
>  
>  The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( AAA ) cannot be found.
>  The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or 
>  message DLL
>  files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use
>  the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for
>  details. The following information is part of the event: AAA, Service 
>  Shutting down.
>  
>  Chuck
>  
>  
>  
>  On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
>  
> > Chuck Ferril wrote:
> >> Using the sample exprserver.tcl I am able to install, use, and 
> >> remove  the service as a script just fine. But when I use TclApp to 
> >> wrap with  the base-tclsvc... prefix, the service can install and 
> >> remove itself,  but doesn't run. I get a message stating that the 
> >> service started and  then stopped.
> >> What am I missing?
> >
> > Can you provide any more detail from the Windows system event log 
> > (reports details on services starting and stopping)?
> >
> > Jeff
>  

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