Dear Enlightened Ones!

I've written a very simple network server that I'm trying to get to run on a Windows 2003 Server machine. I have a decade of experience doing such things on *nix machines, but working on a Windows box on such stuff is new territory for me.

The server runs fine when I run it on the cmd line, but doesn't really appear to do anything at all when I run it as a service. The Event Viewer shows that it has "entered the running state" and I don't see any errors.

I've read many postings about doing this, on this site and many others. I have followed all of the directions for using the srvany.exe utility, but to no avail. I'm considering trying out Win32::Daemon or FireDaemon at this point, but it really bothers me that I can't make this work when all of the things that I read indicate that it should. Thanks! - Daniel

In reply to Perl network server as a service on Windows 2003 Server by dgbillotte

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