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How (if possible at all?) can I edit the contents of http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/sabnzbd-as-a-windows-service

I created an wikidot account, I'm logged on, but that page does not show an option to edit that page. (There's an option on the left to edit the top menu, but I don't want that). The video http://www.wikidot.com/faq:editing-pages says there's an EDIT button at the bottom, but my page doesn't show that ...


FWIW: I want to add you (might) need elevated rights on Win7 to install SABnzbd as a service, so:

1. Click on Windows 7 Start Button

2. Go to All Programs-> Accessories

3. Now right on Command Prompt and select “Run as Administrator” from context menu.

The Wiki can only be changed by the authors.
In that sense it's not a true Wiki.
We're looking at how to open it a bit more in the future.
Probably something with moderators.

BTW: you are right about the elevated rights.
True for Vista and Win7.
However, did you notice this:

Note that you need administrative rights when you make any change to the services,

A reader capable of grasping the Service concept should know how to elevate privileges.
Which is also the reason we did not let the Windows installer add the service.

The strange thing is that I was logged on as a user with admin rights, but the CMD box was not able to install the service; I needed to have to open the CMD box with elevated rights. A kind of Windows 7 magic?

One more lesson: the service was not set to Automatic; it was on manual start. So in Control Panel (... Services), I set it to Automatic. At the moment, or trying to start SABnzbd (not -Helper) I got an error message "... started ... but was stopped ..." or something like that.

Anyway: it works now.

Oh, one more thing: Yes, I can change SAB config settings, and they are saved, but the sabnzbd.ini I was pointing the service to with "-f" is NOT changed.
Settings are changed in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\sabnzbd.ini under the user account I used when installing the service. #strange.

sander wrote: I needed to have to open the CMD box with elevated rights. A kind of Windows 7 magic?

Yes, even an admin  must start the CMD box as "administrator".

One more lesson: the service was not set to Automatic; it was on manual start. So in Control Panel (... Services), I set it to Automatic. At the moment, or trying to start SABnzbd (not -Helper) I got an error message "... started ... but was stopped ..." or something like that.

Started, but was stopped.
Means something went wrong. Check the Windows Event log (applications) for the reason.

Oh, one more thing: Yes, I can change SAB config settings, and they are saved, but the sabnzbd.ini I was pointing the service to with "-f" is NOT changed.
Settings are changed in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\sabnzbd\sabnzbd.ini under the user account I used when installing the service. #strange.

If you set a fully qualified path with -f and SABnzbd has access right, the INI file will change.
Personally I wouldn't use a profile location.