Memcached on Windows Failed to ignore SIGHUP: No error failed to daemon() in order to daemonize

Question

I'm trying to install memcached from: http://blog.elijaa.org/index.php?post/2010/10/15/Memcached-for-Windows&similar

When I try to run it with the -d command line option I get the following error:

Failed to ignore SIGHUP: No error
failed to daemon() in order to daemonize

When I run it without -d it appears to run normally, but I need -d to install it as a service...

I've tried the following tutorials but they don't explain how to solve this.

• http://shiki.me/blog/installing-memcached-for-php-5-3-on-windows-7/

• http://pureform.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/installing-memcache-on-windows-for-php/

• http://zurmo.org/wiki/installing-memcache-on-windows

• How to install and use memcached in Windows for PHP?

I've tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions but it didn't make a difference. I also tried the version from: http://code.jellycan.com/files/memcached-1.2.6-win32-bin.zip

Which does not give this error but still doesn't create the service.

Anyone know how to get this working?

Answer 1

Petesh's answer from the below helped me.

sc create "Memcached11211" binPath= "C:\memcached\memcached.exe -d runservice -p 11211" DisplayName= "Memcached11211" start= auto

https://stackoverflow.com/a/18228391/3998308