For the free version, use Win32::Daemon from:
http://www.roth.net/perl/Daemon/

If you like professional support, pay a bit and get the PDK:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/PDK/7.0/PerlSvc_overview.html

Both are recommended. The second one will give you back your weekends.

Chandra, Ramesh H.S. IN BLR SISL wrote:
> Hello,
>
>       I would like to write a perl script which should be a "service"
> (Daemon) running on a Windows machine. How can I do this? Is there any
> module which can be used? Basically, this service should look out for
> some files in a particular directory and if those files are present, it
> must mail me back. 
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Ramesh Chandra
>
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