> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Tim Anderson > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:08 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [JDEV] Does the windows jabberd server run as a service? > > > <quote> > There should be a tool included with cygwin which provides this. I believe > the reason this code is not a service already is that it is not in any way > recommended for deployment - it exists in its current form for easier > development on a Windows platform. > </quote> > > This statement confuses me to no end. > > As far as deployment is concerned, you logon as administrator, install the > service, then logoff. The service then no longer needs to be running in > anyone's logon and it will magically fire back up whenever the system is > rebooted. Ya, you have to force an account that it will logon to when it > starts up. It's a service. This is how they work in windows land. If > microsoft can get the bloated pig monster that is IIS running as a service > then I think something like jabberd should be pretty straight forward. The > jabber server should run as a service under windows. Period. > > >From the development standpoint: Since the server is is pretty much a > console application turning it into a bona fide service should be a > cakewalk. > > How all this fits into the cygwin library, however, is a mystery > that I will > probably be messing around with shorty.
You're looking for cygwin's cygrunsrv.exe. For example, it's use with Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/cygwin.html#serv _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
