[Boston.pm] Windows services reload?

[James Eshelman]

I have a perl script that installs and registers in the registry a Windows NT service (inetd).  I would like to have the WinNT Service Control Manager pick up the new registry value and start the service without requiring a system reboot.  This appears possible since an install of this service by the MS Installer starts it without a reboot.  Simply loading the registry, however, doesn't seem to load the Service Manager unless there's a reboot. Using the 'kill' function (from the NT resource kit) on the 'services' process and then re-running it proved too heavy-handed a solution, as you might expect,--hung machine--every service on the system must get restarted that way.  I haven't been able to turn up anything in the MS Knowledge Base, MSDN library, Win32API, or ResKit help files so far to indicate how this might be done.  I was hoping for something simple and straightforward like the inetd restart scripts that come with Linux et al.   I'm trying to avoid the MSInstaller and all it's freight and heavy footprint, with the pure perl solution--about a 10:1 ratio in size and complexity here.   Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.    Regards, Jim Eshelman   James Eshelman, Principal, Nova Software, Inc. www.nova-sw.com