Please do, if you ever get this running. Then if all OK I can add this to the DBI FAQ.
Ilya -----Original Message----- From: Karyn Ulriksen To: 'Jeff Urlwin'; Ian Kallen; Karyn Ulriksen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/9/02 10:46 AM Subject: RE: Running DBI Proxy as a service (or equivalent) on Windows 200 0 Thanks for your feedback. I'll look into both of these possibilities and let you know how it works. Best regads, Karyn -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Urlwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 10:18 PM To: Ian Kallen; Karyn Ulriksen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Running DBI Proxy as a service (or equivalent) on Windows 2000 > > > I think the jakarta-tomcat-connectors distributions has an nt service > installer that, though designed for installing tomcat, works for > installing other things as services. The resource kit tool required is SrvAny. Other than that, perlService (from ActiveState) may do the trick. Jeff > > My DBIproxy happily runs on my Win2K box and I am able to interact quite > > well with my MS SQL server from unix boxes (which was the > point). However, > > I would like to take advantages of some of the Services > features, such as > > automatic start on boot, and retry on service failure. I've > tried what I > > have found on introducing a new service and have tried to apply this to > > DBIproxy.bat, without any success. > > > > To date, I've tried the following: > > > > Introducing into the registry > > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/dbiproxy" and > > creating the Parameters subkey with the path reference as a value. > > I've tried this with both > > regedit and regedt32. Rebooting, etc.., and it still doesn't show > > up in the Services listings so that I > > can adjust parameters (seems neater than also introducing start > > parameters directy to the registry). > > Perhaps the services won't recognize a .bat file? > > > > InstallUtils.exe -> I'm waiting for my new MSDN .Net subscription to > > arrive in "7-10" days. Doesn't seem to > > be available outside of MSDN yet. > > > > Srvinst -> Similar problem to above. No access to the Windows NT > > resource Kit at this time and it doesn't seem to be "floating" > out there or > > interesting enough to be available via the jolly roger crews out there. > > > > That being said... I have to believe that I'm not the only > one trying to > > run DBIproxy on a Win2K box in a background mode.... > > > > Would someone please point me in the right direction? > > > > Thanks in advance!! > > > > Karyn > > > >
