Ok, maybe I didn't explain myself correctly, I have been able to use the Win32::Daemon to create the service and it appears in the Services list as I would expect but it fails to run. I get an

Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion

I am not sure if this is due to the script I am using or if the actual Win::Daemon process is responsible.

I did a test with a very simple script below and get the same error. I am not sure what I am doing wrong

#! perl -slw
use strict;
use Win32;

open LOG, '>', 'c:\Mitel\ACD\service.log' or die;
select LOG;
$|++;

Win32::MsgBox( 'From test.pl at ' . localtime,  0, "test.pl" );

while( sleep 5 ) {
    Win32::MsgBox( 'From test.pl at ' . localtime,  0, "test.pl" );
    print scalar localtime;
}

close LOG;

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In reply to Re^2: Help converting to a Windows service by bajangerry
in thread Help converting to a Windows service by bajangerry

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