That's correct. AlwaysUp lets you do things like automatically restart the service if it crashes, or send email alerts, and that kinda stuff. But if you just want to run clamd as a service without any bells and whistles, then you don't need a program like AlwaysUp, you can just run clamd with the --install switch to install the built-in service feature (assuming you have clamd from http://hideout.ath.cx/clamav or http://oss.netfarm.it/clamav).
- Jeremy "Jeff" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:001301c9815b$81cf8e00$856eaa...@com... > Jeremy, > > Just to clarify, are you saying AlwaysUp can be used for more configurations > but is not needed to run clamd as a service? > Kindest regards, > > Jeff Lamb > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [clamav-win32] Clam for W32 updates? Forgotten project? > > > "Jeff" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:000001c9809f$aa997970$ffcc6c...@com... >> "If you run clamd.exe and/or freshclam.exe from the command line using the >> --install switch, it will install a Windows service for each of them." >> >> I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying one just needs to run each > '.exe' >> with the '-install' switch (one time) and that will create a Windows > service >> for each that can then be set up to run while logged off? >> >> So far, I have only been able to get Nigel's version with Power Tools to >> work properly with my e-mail server and a Perl upload script. I have tried >> the others with third party Windows service makers, but could not get them >> to work. >> >> -- >> > > Yes, that's exactly correct! Just run it once with that switch and it > installs a regular Windows Service (which you can view with > all the other services via the Services icon in Control Panel -> > Administrative Tools). > > I've also successfully run clamd as a service using AlwaysUp > (http://www.coretechnologies.com/products/AlwaysUp/) - it's an > inexpensive, commercial program for running applications as services - it > gives you a lot more control and functionality over > PowerTools or similar Windows Service tools. > > - Jeremy > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy >> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:20 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [clamav-win32] Clam for W32 updates? Forgotten project? >> >> >> "rkml" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:05fb7c0252944a9d85b5f912f65b7...@rkhome... >>> >>> The one thing I would really like to see is if ClamAV can run in service >>> mode natively. Then I would not need to login the machine after a > restart >>> to start up the dos batch file to keep it up and running. >>> >> >> I use the native Windows build at http://hideout.ath.cx/clamav, which does >> in fact have service mode support built in. If you run >> clamd.exe and/or freshclam.exe from the command line using the --install >> switch, it will install a Windows service for each of them. >> And it doesn't use Cygwin either! :) >> >> Cheers, >> Jeremy >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-win32 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-win32 > _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-win32
