From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f3b1b08549f270c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-30 19:27:50 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!europa.netcrusader.net!209.150.97.11!feeder.qis.net!news-xfer.newsread.com!bad-news.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!POSTED.monger.newsread.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <39FE3C92.19F4DB4A@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: NT Service, WinSock References: <8t8u9l$4ru$1@zingo.tninet.se> <8t9lbu$ml1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39F8DEBD.82CA66C4@telepath.com> <8tk5bf$lgh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7apL5.4688$qR3.1513149@homer.alpha.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 03:27:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.195.186.125 X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 972962857 38.195.186.125 (Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:27:37 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:27:37 EST Organization: Telepath Systems (telepath.com) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1649 Date: 2000-10-31T03:27:37+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > I probably would have written a package something like yours, but I > discovered a program called "srvany.exe" on one of the Microsoft CD's. > It allows any console program to be run as a service. For my > applications (to be used only by me), that is sufficient, so I've just > been using it with Ada console applications. I've heard of it, and I agree with your assessment. I discounted it for my puposes for a couple of reasons If I remember correctly it doesn't come on the standard NT OS disk. I think its on a system adminsitration pack of some sort. Let's do a help search.....Its on "The Windows NT Resource Kit", whatever that is. It looks like you can download it for free, if you can find it in their labryinthian site. Any facility that uses it would require the user to do this, as its license certianly doesn't allow me to distribute copies. That's an OK solution for personal use if you happen to already have it laying around. There are also some other various freeware or shareware programs that do almost the same thing as srvany. But they all seem to have some extra limitation that srvany doesn't have. Also, a custom service could do things like restart the process when it dies (something that happens to seti every now and then when it can't connect to turn in work units). -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com Work - mailto:dennison@ssd.fsi.com WWW - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html ICQ - 10545591