Re: Exiting batch-started Perl script on WinXP shutdown

Not tested:
You can try to use Win32::Daemon ( http://www.roth.net/perl/Daemon/ ).
This way, your script will be started and stoped as any services.

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Re^2: Exiting batch-started Perl script on WinXP shutdown by Jenda (Abbot) on Apr 17, 2012 at 15:11 UTC
You may even look at a wrapper of that module: Win32::Daemon::Simple. It'll take care of installation/deinstalation, logging, will store settings in registry for you allowing you to change them by calling the script with the right parameters, do the looping for you in such a way that the program responds to the service manager's requests in a timely matter, etc. The only catch is that you have to install a patch to Win32::Registry from http://jenda.krynicky.cz. (It was once supposed to replace the Win32::Registry on CPAN & within libwin32, but that somehow never happened.) Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]

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Re^2: Exiting batch-started Perl script on WinXP shutdown
by Jenda (Abbot) on Apr 17, 2012 at 15:11 UTC

You may even look at a wrapper of that module: Win32::Daemon::Simple. It'll take care of installation/deinstalation, logging, will store settings in registry for you allowing you to change them by calling the script with the right parameters, do the looping for you in such a way that the program responds to the service manager's requests in a timely matter, etc.

The only catch is that you have to install a patch to Win32::Registry from http://jenda.krynicky.cz. (It was once supposed to replace the Win32::Registry on CPAN & within libwin32, but that somehow never happened.)

Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.

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