I think the jakarta-tomcat-connectors distributions has an nt service installer that, though designed for installing tomcat, works for installing other things as services.
-- Ian Kallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | AIM: iankallen On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Karyn Ulriksen wrote: > I've read back into the archives and the search engines looking for an > answer to this, but to no avail. So if I missed it in the archives, I > apologize in advance. > > My DBIproxy happily runs on my Win2K box and I am able to interact quite > well with my MS SQL server from unix boxes (which was the point). However, > I would like to take advantages of some of the Services features, such as > automatic start on boot, and retry on service failure. I've tried what I > have found on introducing a new service and have tried to apply this to > DBIproxy.bat, without any success. > > To date, I've tried the following: > > Introducing into the registry > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/dbiproxy" and > creating the Parameters subkey with the path reference as a value. > I've tried this with both > regedit and regedt32. Rebooting, etc.., and it still doesn't show > up in the Services listings so that I > can adjust parameters (seems neater than also introducing start > parameters directy to the registry). > Perhaps the services won't recognize a .bat file? > > InstallUtils.exe -> I'm waiting for my new MSDN .Net subscription to > arrive in "7-10" days. Doesn't seem to > be available outside of MSDN yet. > > Srvinst -> Similar problem to above. No access to the Windows NT > resource Kit at this time and it doesn't seem to be "floating" out there or > interesting enough to be available via the jolly roger crews out there. > > That being said... I have to believe that I'm not the only one trying to > run DBIproxy on a Win2K box in a background mode.... > > Would someone please point me in the right direction? > > Thanks in advance!! > > Karyn >
