Windows Services

[rodmc]

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to write a windows service, I am totally
new to it. I have written a simple test case, however it doesn't appear
to do anything. Although it installs and appears to start, when I run a
query of its status (using another app) it says it is not running.  As
a note I am running it as the administrator in a Win2k machine to avoid
any problems with permissions - although I would rather not do this for
ever :-)

I install the software as follows:

python testservice.py install
python testservice.py start

I am sure I am missing something out as I am basically working from
code samples for other solutions which I have seen. In particular one
for getting CherryPy to run as a service.

When I have figured this all out I intend to add in some code I have
already written which runs a server application.

It may be all rather obvious but I am quite new Python (just a few
months) and totally new to Windows services.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Best,

Rod


import win32serviceutil
import win32service
import win32event
import os,sys

class helloworld:

    def test(self):
        x=1
        filename=open("c:test.txt","w")
        while x<100000:
            print >>filename,x
            x=x+1

class MyService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
    """NT Service."""

    _svc_name_ = "Test"
    _svc_display_name_ = "Test"

    def __init__(self, args):
        win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args)
        # create an event that SvcDoRun can wait on and SvcStop
        # can set.
        self.stop_event = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None)

    def SvcDoRun(self):
        print "got here"
        helloworld.test()
        win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.stop_event,
win32event.INFINITE)

    def SvcStop(self):
        self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
        win32event.SetEvent(self.stop_event)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    win32serviceutil.HandleCommandL