ann: servicestation - run your linux/mac services on windows without needing pywin...

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Fri Jul 17 05:26:09 EDT 2009


Oisin Mulvihill wrote:
> I have to admit I didn't come across srvany before. 

It's been part of the Windows Resource Kit since way back,
but like many such things is probably known more by word-of-mouth
than by Internet Searchability

>  * Properly tracking all child processes launched by the command it
> runs and closes them on stop/restart.
> 
>  * Monitoring the command its running and keeping it alive.
> 
>  * Allows you to set the description / name from the config file.
> 
>  * It logs useful information to the event viewer so you can see why
> it couldn't run the command under its care.
> 
>  * Can interact with the desktop or not so you can run programs with a
> gui but not actually see it.
> 
>  * Does not disconnect the service if you log-out as some runners do.

Looks very interesting. Definitely put this on the front page,
otherwise people may think as I did that this is just another
srvany clone. 

TJG



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