Win 2000 Perl Question

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Re: Win 2000 Perl Question by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 19, 2001 at 01:59 UTC
Use COM, either by making it a "script component" or using ActiveState's server maker from their dev kit. Or, use a remote shell (unrelated to Perl). Or, have the script, already running, listen for a signal on a socket or named pipe and GO when the client tells it.	[reply]
(tye)Re: Win 2000 Perl Question by tye (Sage) on Jun 19, 2001 at 10:42 UTC
I'd just go with standard TCP/IP (sockets) servers and clients. Simple, portable, well documented and supported. My second choice should probably be the RCmd service and client from the WinNT resource kit (though I haven't used these with Win2K). - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]
Re: (tye)Re: Win 2000 Perl Question by Sniper (Scribe) on Jun 19, 2001 at 14:14 UTC
Hi you can see Using WMI for create a remote Process on Win32 It is useful for me for treat big task which can be cut in many little tasks David "Sniper" Rigaudiere	[reply]
Re: Win 2000 Perl Question by TGI (Parson) on Jun 19, 2001 at 03:04 UTC
You could also use apache and mod_perl or CGI. This will give you a very flexble platform to work from. Of course it'll eat a bit more ram than the other options. Once apache is running and serving your scripts (or wrappers for your scripts) as CGI, you can trigger them with any http client (such as IE or something whipped up in LWP). TGI says moo	[reply]