Win32::Daemon - I need some assistance, please.

[ChrisBravoTown]

Hi,

I'm not an experienced Perl programmer, and have been tasked with creating a Windows Service which checks disk space on a server and sends out an email if space is low. I've had no problems creating the perl script, but I cannot get my head around setting up the Windows Service.

I have installed Win32:aemon and have run the "Oh my god, Perl is a service!" example. The documantation here doesn't make much sense to me:

http://www.roth.net/perl/Daemon/

Can someone out there please help my out with a simple explaination, or maybe provide a link to pertinetn documentation and examples?

Many thanks,

Chris

 

[travs69]

You used to be able to use instsrv.exe to create services on windows. Not sure if it still works or not.



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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[ChrisBravoTown]

Hi, thanks for your reply. But the boss insists I use Win32:aemon.

I have stumbled across a script on the Roth website DirMon.pl

http://www.roth.net/perl/scripts/#win32 service

...but it's still too complicated.

 

[ChrisBravoTown]

In the end I gave up on Win32:aemon due to the lack of resources, and apparently it is not supported in the latest version of Perl. Instead I used instsrv.exe ans srvany.exe

There's the link which helped me:

http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/2007-May/000711.html

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en