Subject: RE: Automachron as an NT Service
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:48:03 -0400
From: Mark Drissel
To: steeve@oneguycoding.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steeve McCauley [SMTP:steeve@oneguycoding.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 3:17 PM
> To:   Mark Drissel
> Subject:      Re: Automachron as an NT Service
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
>> > Mark Drissel wrote:
>> >
>> > >> FYI, I have installed your app as a service using Microsoft's servany.exe
>> > >> from the NT Resource Kit. For the benefit of others, the /s has to be used
>> > >> when running with servany.exe, for obvious reasons.
>> >
>>         >Perhaps you could elabourate.  Is this program freeware or
>>         >public domain or whatever Microsoft's lawyers might brand
>>         >one of their apps which is freely available?
>>
>>         From what I can tell, you have to buy the NT Resource Kit. It's not
>> a sophisticated a tool so I would wager someone has already written a
>> similar tool. You install it as a service and then you enter the name of the
>> application, parameters and the default directory in the registry. When I if
>> first tried using it with Automachron, the settings weren't being saved. I
>> could see the saved settings in the HKCU so I took a shot and tried it with
>> the /s option and everything seemed to work.
>
>Ah, now it's coming back to me.  The /s switch is *my* switch.  I
>thought you were talking about a switch to servany.  Using the /s
>switch in this situation would seem to be appropriate.  Then I could
>recommend setting up achron as a service as follows,
>
>- run 'achron /s'
>- setup the thing with the appropriate server, sync rate, etc
>- exit achron
>- run 'achron /s' using servany

  The last step is more like:
 start the srvany process that runs 'achron' using the AppParameter '/s'

        AppParameter is one the registry values you set for srvany.

        That way should work. I did it a little differently.  I checked the
"Allow Service to Interact with Desktop" in the service startup options.
With srvany setup to start achron with the /s option (and desktop
interaction allowed), I am able to configure achron however I want. The only
problem with allowing interaction with the desktop is that I can
accidentally close the app (but the service will continue running). I
haven't tried not allowing desktop interaction; it may still allow you to
close the app.

>Correct me if I'm completely off base, or even just a bit
>off base (Go Expos! :)

--Mark
ps. Go Orioles!