windows-services

I am going to develop an application which will process online data (comming through socket) and it does not need any user interaction. I am thinking of a simple console application, but what about windows service does it provide extra benefit? (I know windows service does not need user logged in to run the service but I am asking about extra benefit) VonC On the top of my head: You can control the user (and the rights associated with this user account) which starts the process an Automatically started process means the desktop need to be on, not user logged, for the service to run a policy on

@UPDATE: OK FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO IS SEEKING ADVICE ON THIS ISSUE... So far, the best thing i have found is to download yourself a cpy of pGina ( http://www.pgina.org/ ) and for 2k/xp modify the GINA, and for vista/win7 you will need to create custom login credentials (pGina have the tools/samples to interface with the vista/win7 architecture). to confirm -- it appears that this is what Novell are doing with vista/win7 rather than the traditional method of replacing the GINA (like in 2k/xp) If anyone else comes up with a way to run an application on the logon screen in win7 please post it.

I'm trying to get Selenium setup to run as a windows service. It seems to be okay but, then does not seem to run properly. Using the windows toolkit I have done: "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\instsrv.exe" SeleniumRC "C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\srvany.exe" -a [SeleniumUser] -p [SeleniumUserPass] Saved the following as a.reg file (and then double clicked it) Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SeleniumRC\Parameters] "Application"="java.exe" "AppDirectory"="C:\\Program Files\\selenium-server-1.0.3"

I've a .net WCF windows service running on an app server which keeps monitoring a folder for xml files. How do I make this service run only at a particular time (01.00 hours) everyday ? Thanks. Is your service a real service or just a WCF application which monitors the XML folder? In case your WCF service is just a normal application the easiest way is to use the Scheduled Tasks functionality in Windows (Found in Control Panel). Just have the application check the folder on startup and set a scheduled task which starts the application at whatever time you want. If the target application is a

I didn't find any really good example (actually I did not find a single example) on how to register a class that implements the org.apache.commons.daemon.Daemon interface as Windows service. Do I have to register this implementation using procrun? But than there doesn't seem to be a point in implementing the interface as procrun can register any program as windows service. Furthermore there seems to be a docu-bug on the procrun page ( http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/procrun.html ): The description of the --StartMethod parameter states: Note: in jvm mode, the start method should

I'm writing a Windows service that needs to know whether there are any users currently logged-on in the machine. So far I've tried Win32_LogonSession (WMI), and LsaEnumerateLogonSessions / LsaGetLogonSessionData (secur32.dll). Both work, and seem to return the same data, but they are too slow to update when a user log off: When the system starts, they return "0 interactive users". (OK) When I log on, they return "1 interactive user". (OK) But then when I log off, the number of users is kept at 1. After a new log-on, the number is 2, and so on. Thus Win32_LogonSession nor