Hi Jörg, And thanks for your answers.
You mention portability rules. Do you have a URL handy for these? A quick Google didn't bring up anything obvious, nor did searching the mono project site on "portability". If not, don't worry: I'll do a more thorough search. Cheers Peter -----Original Message----- From: Jörg Rosenkranz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 November 2005 12:52 To: Bradley, Peter; Robert Jordan; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Re: mono-service Hi Peter, > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Bradley, Peter > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:26 PM > > My post was not intended as a criticism of the man page, and I'm very > sorry if it appeared to be so. Perhaps I should have been > clearer, but > what I was really saying that what (I think) is needed is a HowTo. Yes I think this is true. There needs to be something in the Wiki. To answer some of your questions: > Does the process to be run as a daemon have to inherit from > System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase? Does it guarantee that the > OnStart(), OnStop(), OnPause(), and OnContinue() methods get called as > appropriate? The service has to be implemented according to the MS docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemserviceprocessservicebaseclasstopic.asp and http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemserviceprocessservicebaseclassruntopic1.asp Short: It needs to be inherited from ServiceBase and it needs to call ServiceBase.Run in it's Main method. > What does one have to do make the service start > up at boot > time and run without a user logged in? (Your script is a > great help in > that regard. Thanks). What user does the service run as? It runs as the user you are starting mono-service with. You are responsible for switching the user in the start script. Examples of start scripts should be in the Wiki/Doc/etc. too. Maybe that's tootoo distribution specific to put it into SVN? > What changes > (if any) are required to assemblies written as Windows > services to make > sure they can run as daemons? There are no changes needed if the assemblies are written with the normal portability rules in mind. Mono-service should mimic the behaviour of MS' implementation as close as possible. > The OP obviously has trouble getting the OnStart() method > running. The > reason why might be contained in the answers to the questions I make > above. Yes :-) > I'm perfectly happy to put my money where my mouth is as far as > producing a HowTo is concerned. Once I've got a daemon > running, I'll be > only too happy to explain how it was done. But I may need my hand > holding a little in the meantime :) The man page is very basic and contains only information about handling of services. There should be an article about implementation of services too. I would be happy if you write a howto down. Please ask if you have any questions. Joerg. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
