Feature wanted - Create Service | Start/Stop service

Archive: Feature wanted - Create Service | Start/Stop service

TicTac
20th November 2001 20:44 UTC

Feature wanted - Create Service | Start/Stop service
i would like to see something along the lines that Create services for NT boxes. i would also want something that start/stop services when installing programs that might interfere with the service. (installing apache over a phptriad application for example)

if you could somehow get these working, i bet alot more people would be happier.... at least youll have one.. me :)

Thanks,
Tic Tac

felfert
21st November 2001 04:29 UTC

Re: Feature wanted - Create Service | Start/Stop service

Originally posted by TicTac
i would like to see something along the lines that Create services for NT boxes.
...

Sounds nice, but ...
perhaps this does not belong to an installer but to the executable which implements the service. When creating services, there are so much parameters which need to be correctly specified. The programmer of the service executable should know best about what parameters to use.
A good example for that is inetd from the cygwin dist. It has two commandline options --install-as-service and --remove-as-service which (un)registers itself.
For start/stop you are probably right.

-Fritz

locnar42
21st November 2001 20:50 UTC

For stop and starting a service, just use the net command. specify either "start" or "stop" as the first parameter and the name of the service as the second.

For all services which I've written, I've always built the ability to register and unregister themselves into the application. Adds very little overhead and what better place to put it.

TicTac
21st November 2001 20:55 UTC

hmm.. so how do you actually create a service? can you link me to somewhere i can find this out.

Thanks
Tic Tac

felfert
22nd November 2001 10:33 UTC

Originally posted by TicTac
hmm.. so how do you actually create a service? can you link me to somewhere i can find this out.

Thanks
Tic Tac

Have a look at the attached code. This is the cygwin inetd. You can
get the full package (inetutils) from one of the mirrors listed here.

-Fritz