[omniORB] omniNames.exe and the -start parameter. omniNames a s an NT service.

[Smith, Norman]

Actually, I was thinking more about your code, and had the thought that I
have never investigated how to write an application as an actual NT service.
I'd kind of like to take a look at your source as well.

Also, I think it would be beneficial to have it added to the official
source, since the SrvAny module is something you have to license separately
from NT itself. We just happened to have it, since we have a universal
developer subscription, but others may not have access to it without
spending more money.

I'd take a stab at getting it folded into the master source if I were you.
Could help alot of folks.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Kamp [mailto:johnk@harlequin.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 2:47 AM
To: Smith, Norman
Subject: Re: [omniORB] omniNames.exe and the -start parameter. omniNames
a s an NT service.


Cool, had not heard about this. I'll take a look although the code I have
seems
to work fine. I was hoping to release the code to AT&T in the hope that it
might
be patched into the official sources.

Cheers

JohnK

----- Original Message -----
From: Smith, Norman <Norman_Smith@bmc.com>
To: 'Theo Aukerman' <taukerman@logici.com>; 'John Kamp'
<johnk@harlequin.co.uk>;
<omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 5:43 PM
Subject: RE: [omniORB] omniNames.exe and the -start parameter. omniNames a s
an
NT service.


> We have omniNames running as a service under Windows NT v4.0 by using the
> SrvAny application that comes with the NT options pack (although I believe
> it is available for license separately).
>
> This app allows any Windows 95/NT application to be run as a service under
> NT without having to write any special code (it essentially wraps the
> application). The installation of the SRVANY add-on as well as configuring
> it to host omniNames takes about 10 minutes the first time you run through
> it.
>
> FYI
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Theo Aukerman [mailto:taukerman@logici.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 11:32 AM
> To: 'John Kamp'; 'omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com'
> Subject: RE: [omniORB] omniNames.exe and the -start parameter. omniNames
> a s an NT service.
>
>
> I would certainly be interested in seeing the code which installs
omniNames
> as a service.
>
> How can I get it?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com
> [mailto:owner-omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com]On Behalf Of John Kamp
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 7:22 AM
> To: omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com
> Subject: [omniORB] omniNames.exe and the -start parameter. omniNames as
> an NT service.
>
>
> I was wondering what the idea was behind omniNames exiting when -start was
> used
> for the second time. When trying to automate the startup of our servers,
I'm
> finding that I need to write a script(s) which do something like this:
>
> if omniNames log files exist
>    exec=omniNames
> else
>    exec=omniNames -start 1234
> end
>
> This is because issueing an "omniNames -start <port>" is fatel. Is there
any
> chance that the semantics could be changed slightly so that if omniNames
is
> issued for a second/third time etc.., its non fatel?
>
> This would help greatly. As it turns out, this change is trivial in the
> code.
>
> Lastly, I have code which adds the following command line options to
> omniNames.exe:
>
> -install
> -uninstall
>
> which installs or de-installs omniNames as an NT service. Is anyone
> interested
> in seeing this code in omniNames? Or would this be getting far too
platform
> specific. The problem with NT services is that you need a thread in the
> server
> itself to respond SCM events. On UNIX, inetd requires no such response
> system.
> Anyway, this NT service code is generic enough such that any .exe can be
> turned
> into an NT service in short order.
>
> Thanks for any feedback. We are maintaining this code locally anyhow, it
> seems a
> shame to have to port it to each new release of omniNames.
>
> Cheers
>
> John Kamp
>