Re^2: Servers on Windows?

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I am asking for a light weight RPC implementation that I can call from non-Windows systems. Preferably, small and stable. I just need to (infrequently) start a small Perl sysadm program -- and get the result back.

I have searched for open source sshd and didn't find anything except Cygwin, which isn't light weight.

This is really trivial functionality. I don't understand why it seems so hard.

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Re^3: Servers on Windows? by ysth (Canon) on Nov 25, 2007 at 23:35 UTC
I'm still not managing to see where sshd fits into your question - unless you envision taking its code and turning it into your rpc server, which seems like severe overkill. Yes, it is really trivial functionality. Start with Win32::Daemon; take the first part of the first example straight out of the pod: `use Win32::Daemon; # Tell the OS to start processing the service... Win32::Daemon::StartService(); # Wait until the service manager is ready for us to continue... while( SERVICE_START_PENDING != Win32::Daemon::State() ) { sleep( 1 ); } # Now let the service manager know that we are running... Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING );` [download] followed by the single-threaded server code straight out of the perl doc at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html#TCP-Servers-with-IO%3a%3aSocket, modified to just run your sysadm program and return its output in the body of the accept loop. (Untested...)	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Servers on Windows?
by ysth (Canon) on Nov 25, 2007 at 23:35 UTC

Yes, it is really trivial functionality. Start with Win32::Daemon; take the first part of the first example straight out of the pod:

    use Win32::Daemon;

    # Tell the OS to start processing the service...
    Win32::Daemon::StartService();

    # Wait until the service manager is ready for us to continue...
    while( SERVICE_START_PENDING != Win32::Daemon::State() )
    {
        sleep( 1 );
    }

    # Now let the service manager know that we are running...
    Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING );
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http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html#TCP-Servers-with-IO%3a%3aSocket

(Untested...)

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