I'd highly,
highly recommend picking up Win32 Perl
Scripting: The Administrator's handbook by Dave Roth,
published by New Riders. I had never written any NT perl
and was asked to write a pretty hefty service, and this
book made my job far easier. If you can't get the book,
get the
example code from it.
Chapter 8 will become your best friend, it goes over managing,
adding, removing, starting and stopping services both
locally and remotely, writing your own, controlling your own,
common modules for all of these, debugging considerations,
and more. Wraps it up with a couple full-fledged and fairly
useful services. Highly recommend the book, look at the code
regardless of whether or not you can find the deadtree
version.
EDIT: I'd recommend picking up Win32::Daemon as well,
that's the thing that does the meaty bits of Service handling.
Other modules to check on: Win32::NetAdmin, Win32::Perms.
Enjoy!
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