Re: [Condor-users] Win7 and kbdd daemon

["John (TJ) Knoeller" <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Starting with 7.4.4 If you use the MSI installer and tell it that the machine you are installing on should
pay attention to user activity, then the installer will modify the registry so that the KBDD is started
whenever the user logs on.

As a backup to that, if you put the KBDD into the DAEMON_LIST.   when the daemon KBDD starts up,
it will realize that it can't do it's job (since it's running as system) so it will also modify the registry
so that the KBDD is started when the user logs on.  

On Win7 and Vista, It's the KBDD running as the current user that listens in on user input and puts the machine into OWNER state, the one in the DAEMON_LIST is prohibited by desktop isolation from listening in on user input.

So it's slightly wasteful to put KBDD in the DAEMON_LIST on Win7 and Vista, but it does get the job done (note that you have to log off and back on again after installing condor before the KBDD running as user actually starts up).

-tj


On 7/7/2011 2:17 AM, Greg.Hitchen@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi All

 

Just wondering if someone has a summary of the status of the condor_kbdd daemon

with regards to working correctly for Win7.

 

What version/s of 7.4 and 7.6 correctly detect keyboard activity on Win7, and what (if anything)

special needs to be done to config files (or the registry) to allow it to work?

 

I have searched the user-list archives and wiki but am finding it difficult to

dig out this information.

 

Thanks for  any info/help.

 

Cheers

 

Greg

 

P.S. Our "installs" are not via MSI installs but via extracting and copying

the zip file

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