Please excuse me as I am new to perl and still struggling to grasp some ideas and need your help. I tried running the above example it doesn't give any error and ran fine but everytime I try to run it from the commandline it executes the following: 
else
{
    die "Nothing to do\n";
}

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and no service is created. Is there any parameter needs to pass while running the script. And what exactly is the following for: 
my %opt;
GetOptions (
    \%opt,
    "run",
    "install",
    "remove",
    "start",
    "stop",
    "restart",
    "pause",
    "resume|continue",
);

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What exactly is GetOptions for. I tried to modify thie above scripty and put the following code in the else part: 
else
{
    #die "Nothing to do\n";
    &removeService();
    &installService();
    my $cmd = 'net start $serviceConfig{name}';
    my $results = `$cmd`;
    if($!)
    {
    &debug("Net Start returned error: $@\n" . $results);
    die "ERROR";
    }
    #don't know what is this for
    my %context = {
        last_state => SERVICE_STOPPED,
        count      => 0,
        start_time => time(),
    };
    Win32::Daemon::StartService( \%context, 3000 );
    exit();
}

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now I run the script and service gets created and can start,stop,resume etc.. the service under services. I don't if it's the right way. Any comments will be really appeciated. Thanks

In reply to Re^4: Perl script as windows service by rockets12345
in thread Perl script as windows service by rockets12345

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