Edgar,

Does you service have permissions to run a program?

>The Service starts my program if run manually via timer...
>

>DEFINE CLASS mytimer AS timer
>      PROCEDURE timer
>*            DO ("PDNC_JS.Exe" ) with this, oService
>            DO ("vfpsrvrtn" ) with this, oService
>            dtNow=DATETIME()     && read datetime() and seconds() close to the same instant
>            nsec=SECONDS()
>            nsec=CEILING((nsec+.5)/TIMERINT)*TIMERINT
>            dtTarget=DTOT(DATE())+nsec
>            this.interval=(dtTarget-dtNow) * 1000
>ENDDEFINE
>

>After registering the service program successfully, I cannot run the service...
>Error:
>The srvODNC.EXE service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service.
>
>In this example---*And here is the code for vfpsrvrtn.prg
>LPARAMETERS oTimer,oService
>oService.logstr(PROGRAM())
>Messagebeep(0)
>CHRSAW(1)
>Messagebeep(0)
>
>The log is being filled out when executed from Run
>Why can't the Service get launched as a service?
>
>TIA