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Guardian appears dead

Symptom
  • EZproxy on Windows does no longer respond to requests
  • The messages.txt log in the EZproxy installation folder shows this error message:
    2024-04-11 23:25:05 Guardian appears dead; shutting down
    
Applies to
  • EZproxy on Windows
  • The "Service Path" of the service is enclosed in quotation marks
Resolution

Remove the quotation marks.

EZproxy should be able to start again as a service after this has been adjusted.

 

Page ID
55750