Server applications - avoiding sleep

[Sebastjan Trepca]

You can create a Windows Service which will run as long as Windows are
up, well, except if you stop it.

You can find more info here: http://www.python.org/windows/win32/

Sebastjan

On 15 Mar 2006 05:26:45 -0800, rodmc <userprogoogle-139 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I have written a small server application (for Windows) which handles
> sending and receiving information from an instant messaging client and
> a database. This server needs to run 24/7, however it stops when the
> computer screen is locked.
>
> I assume there is a way to make it run in the background 24/7 but how
> do I go about doing this?
>
> At present the application runs from within a wxPython GUI, however
> this is only used to start and stop it. It could be entire faceless and
> the GUI only used to execute it.
>
> Best,
>
> rod
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