Chris, Peter, Dave, and all; Thanks for your responses. My real problem is that the service was not actually starting when I thought it was. Now that the service actually starts, everything works well.
What I am doing is to allow commands to be issued on a server via an existing FTP server. I didn't want to add any addition Network service, but I need to execute commands on the server. What I did was to add each command to its own file in a directory. in an other directory is a file of the same name that contains the execution count. The service watches for the execution count file to be deleted and recreated. When that happens, it executes the command in the other file. Only the directory containing the count files is exposed by the FTP server. What an FTP client does is get the execution count file, delete it, bump the number and rewrite it. I'm not sure I explained this very well, but it works. I have to clean the code up and deal with error conditions. If anyone is interested in the code, I'll publish it - when it is cleaned up a little. Thanks again, Doug
