[JDEV] Does the windows jabberd server run as a service?

[Steven Brown]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> Tim Anderson
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:08 PM
> To: 'jdev at jabber.org'
> Subject: RE: [JDEV] Does the windows jabberd server run as a service?
>
>
> <quote>
> There should be a tool included with cygwin which provides this. I believe
> the reason this code is not a service already is that it is not in any way
> recommended for deployment - it exists in its current form for easier
> development on a Windows platform.
> </quote>
>
> This statement confuses me to no end.
>
> As far as deployment is concerned, you logon as administrator, install the
> service, then logoff. The service then no longer needs to be running in
> anyone's logon and it will magically fire back up whenever the system is
> rebooted. Ya, you have to force an account that it will logon to when it
> starts up. It's a service. This is how they work in windows land. If
> microsoft can get the bloated pig monster that is IIS running as a service
> then I think something like jabberd should be pretty straight forward. The
> jabber server should run as a service under windows. Period.
>
> >From the development standpoint: Since the server is is pretty much a
> console application turning it into a bona fide service should be a
> cakewalk.
>
> How all this fits into the cygwin library, however, is a mystery
> that I will
> probably be messing around with shorty.

You're looking for cygwin's cygrunsrv.exe.  For example, it's use with
Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/cygwin.html#serv