Re: Servers on Windows?

[ysth]

I'm not clear on whether you are looking for server code (code that listens to a port and accepts connections) or code to install a windows service or both. For the former, perhaps search CPAN for RPC - lots of choices there. (Or just start from what's in perlipc.) For the latter, I see Win32::Daemon; there may be others, too.

Search for openssh for an open source sshd, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the rest of your question.

[Anonymous Monk]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I am asking for a light weight RPC implementation that I can call from non-Windows systems. Preferably, small and stable. I just need to (infrequently) start a small Perl sysadm program -- and get the result back.

I have searched for open source sshd and didn't find anything except Cygwin, which isn't light weight.

This is really trivial functionality. I don't understand why it seems so hard.

[ysth]

I'm still not managing to see where sshd fits into your question - unless you envision taking its code and turning it into your rpc server, which seems like severe overkill.

Yes, it is really trivial functionality. Start with Win32::Daemon; take the first part of the first example straight out of the pod:

    use Win32::Daemon;

    # Tell the OS to start processing the service...
    Win32::Daemon::StartService();

    # Wait until the service manager is ready for us to continue...
    while( SERVICE_START_PENDING != Win32::Daemon::State() )
    {
        sleep( 1 );
    }

    # Now let the service manager know that we are running...
    Win32::Daemon::State( SERVICE_RUNNING );

followed by the single-threaded server code straight out of the perl doc at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html#TCP-Servers-with-IO%3a%3aSocket, modified to just run your sysadm program and return its output in the body of the accept loop.

(Untested...)