At 15:01 +0300 21.07.2005, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
I would like to create a Windows service in Perl. Is it possible, or I am
able just to run/stop/pause services created in other languages?
If yes, please give me some hints and tell me what modules to use.
You can run Perl programs as services using Microsoft's 'srvany.exe'
program, which is distributed as part of the NT Resource Kit. You use
the 'instsrv.exe' program (also part of the resource kit) to create a
new service that calls 'srvany.exe'. You then use the Registry Editor
to tell 'srvany.exe' to launch Perl and invoke the script you specify.
There are articles on using 'srvany.exe' at:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/8148/8148.html
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/7959/7959.html
and Microsoft has some documentation of their own. The NT Resource
Kit, which contains these programs, is available from Microsoft. I
believe that it's available for download, but you may have to do some
digging to find it.
I should caution you that this approach doesn't seem to be entirely
reliable. I've sometimes seen 'srvany.exe' fail to notice that Perl
had exited, so that the service didn't restart automatically even
though Perl wasn't running any more.
ActiveState also offer a tool called PerlSvc as part of the 'pro'
version of their Perl developer tools. I haven't tried this, but
details are at:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/Perl_Dev_Kit/more_information.plex
Hope that helps,
Angus
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