I'm no services expert, so I apologize ahead of time if I missed any service idiosyncrasies, but I hacked a service script together that works at a basic level. Below is the code I have that will properly start and stop w/ no errors. It doesn't include all the pausing, restarting, etc functionality, but it should provide a foundation to build on. All the code is taken from the examples section of the Roth's Consulting site ( http://www.roth.net/perl/Daemon/ ) I stripped it down alot and changed what I felt were typos. If nothing else, this should help to get you started.

use Win32::Daemon;

$SERVICE_SLEEP_TIME = 20;
Win32::Daemon::StartService();

sleep (1) while(SERVICE_START_PENDING != Win32::Daemon::State());

Win32::Daemon::State(SERVICE_RUNNING);

$dontStop = 1;
$count=0;

# Note: the $count stuff is here in case i can't stop it.. purely for 
+debugging
while (($dontStop) && ($count++ < 600)) {
    # Process stuff here
    open(OUT,">>e:\\temp3\\testout.txt");
    print OUT localtime();
    print OUT "   $_\n" for (1..10);
    close(OUT);

    if(SERVICE_CONTROL_NONE != ($Message = Win32::Daemon::QueryLastMes
+sage())) {
        if(SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE == $Message) {
            Win32::Daemon::State($PrevState);
        }
        elsif(SERVICE_CONTROL_STOP == $Message) {
            Win32::Daemon::State(SERVICE_STOP_PENDING, 25000);
            $dontStop = 0;
        }
    }    
    Win32::Sleep($SERVICE_SLEEP_TIME);
}

Win32::Daemon::StopService();
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