Re^7: Turn a perl script into a Win32 Service

BrowserUk,
I assume you named "YourService" SrvAny given your registry path.

The Bad News

Your working XP example did not work on Vista

The Good News

I know why - Vista no longer supports interactive services

Where I am at

The ActiveState PerlSvc is not free but I will check with sales to find out if it works on Vista. I still have Win32::Daemon to explore but it will be hard for me to tell which problems are related to the module versus Vista :-(

Cheers - L~R

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Re^8: Turn a perl script into a Win32 Service by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 16, 2008 at 01:15 UTC
I know why - Vista no longer supports interactive services Good news that you know why. Crap that it doesn't. I wonder about the rational behind that, but what's new with MS decision making. I still have Win32::Daemon to explore but it will be hard for me to tell which problems are related to the module versus Vista :-( I will try (late tomorrow due to commitments), to work up a working Win32::Daemon sample. I thought that I had posted one here (at least) once before, but a casual google didn't turn it up. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice. "Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."	[reply]
Re^9: Turn a perl script into a Win32 Service by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Oct 16, 2008 at 01:52 UTC
BrowserUk, I am working from one of the examples. I will let you know if I get it working (on Vista). Update: It looks like the issue is the combination of running perl as a service and trying to do Win32::OLE->new('Outlook.Application'). It hangs there for a while then dies with Win32::OLE->LastError = Win32::OLE(0.1709) error 0x80010001: "Call was rejected by callee" When I kill outlook from the process table, it still fails to get the inbox. I am trying to track these problems down now. Cheers - L~R	[reply]