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#45: Document how to use the Windows service recovery feature
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mtkennerly committed Dec 9, 2023
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you may also need to grant the Network Service permissions to the directory that the service wants to access.
More information about Windows service user accounts [can be found here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/510170).

### Recovery
If you want to use the service recovery feature of Windows itself
when Shawl gives up trying to restart the wrapped command,
then make sure to turn on the "enable actions for stops with errors" option in the service properties.

## Comparison with other tools
Shawl differs from existing solutions like
[WinSW](https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw) and [NSSM](https://nssm.cc)
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