Re: Trying to start a perl script as Windows Service


Quoth "dn.perl@xxxxxxxxx" <dn.perl@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Sep 28, 11:46 am, Bill H <b...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 28, 12:45 pm, "dn.p...@xxxxxxxxx" <dn.p...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I want to run a perl script which will continue running on Windows XP
even after I log off, the way nohup works in Unix. A recommended way
of doing it is to run the application as Windows Service. Accordingly
I wrote a test script (myscript.pl), which prints a line every 10
seconds in an infinite loop :
Time is 2007-09-27 16:22:25
Time is 2007-09-27 16:22:35
Time is 2007-09-27 16:22:45

I created a service for the perl script. When I start the service, it
stops immediately.
The message is : The print_tstamp 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.

Just a guess - but did it stop because you closed the window, which
means it had no place to print (maybe gets an error?)

Well, I am printing (concatenating) the string to a file.
I tried to run the service with perl, and also with wperl.
But so far nothing has worked. When I log off, the process
terminates.

To run an arbitrary program as a windows service you need to use srvany
from the Resource Kit. I don't really know why, but it's to do with how
Windows expects a service to behave. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890 .

Ben

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