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Re: daemons as services again


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   Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:32:12 -0400
   From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
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   At 10:27 AM 6/16/99 -0700, itz@lbin.com wrote:
   >Sorry for slightly off-topic post, but I believe this was not touched
   >upon in the (many) previous threads about services.
   >
   >Can a service have command line arguments?  Unix daemons are just
   >regular programs in this regard, and many are written to rely on their
   >command line as the primary way to modify their behavior.  But the
   >Invoker utility seems to provide no avenue to pass arguments to the
   >newly installed service, and in fact when I hold my nose and enter the
   >GUI (Control Panel|Services), there's no trace of arguments, either.
   >
   >Out of luck again?
   >
   >-- 
   >Ian Zimmerman
   >Lightbinders, Inc.
   >2325 3rd Street #324
   >San Francisco, California 94107
   >U.S.A.
   >


   I'm no expert, but you can type parameters to a service in the
   control panel/
   services.  Click on the service you want and enter the parameters in the 
   "Startup Parameters" box.  Then, start the service.  The one thing I'm not
   sure about is whether or not the parameters entered in this way are 
   persistent.  I seem to remember having some trouble with this, but its been
   a while so my memory may not be clear...

I see no "Startup Parameters" Box.  All I see in the resulting dialog
is:

Radio Box: Automatic/Manual/Disabled

Group Box: Log on as

Radio Box: System Account/This Account

Checkbox: Allow Service to Interact with Desktop

Edit Boxes: This Account, Password, Confirm Password

and the usual pushbuttons.


NT Workstation 4.0, SP5.

-- 
Ian Zimmerman
Lightbinders, Inc.
2325 3rd Street #324
San Francisco, California 94107
U.S.A.

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