[mrtg-developers] Patch for service support on Vista/Server 2008 (possibly XP)

[David Sedlar]

Sorry found some serious bugs so for the time being I'm removing the 
patches.

Regards,
David.

LeQuack wrote:
> I've written a smallish patch for the service handling of Windows Server
> 2008/Vista.
> Since I tend to run things as services on our company server running Windows
> 2008 I used sc.exe native windows tool for creating a service (easier than
> srvany). All went well but the service failed to start, stating timeout
> error. So I narrowed it down to the service manager return calls, since the
> service manager did not get any feedback as to when the service entered the
> running state. The patch also applies to stopping the service and the same
> timeout errors.
>
> It relies on Win32::Daemon package (Info here: 
> http://search.cpan.org/~daveroth/Win32-Scheduler_v20000702/lib/Win32/Scheduler.PM
> http://search.cpan.org/~daveroth/Win32-Scheduler_v20000702/lib/Win32/Scheduler.PM
> ), but the package is only required when running in daemon mode and only if
> the operating system is of NT (Windows) type. But since not everyone who
> runs this in daemon mode wants to run it as a service (and therefore install
> the Win32::Daemon package), I've added the --service option (Also
> RunAsService: Yes in the .cfg file) as a condition as well.
>
> Hopefully this will help some folks in the future if it gets implemented.
>
> Here's the patch:
> Diff Patches: http://n2.nabble.com/file/n1402041/mrtg.patch mrtg.patch  
> http://n2.nabble.com/file/n1402041/MRTG_lib.patch MRTG_lib.patch 
>
> Files:  http://n2.nabble.com/file/n1402041/mrtg mrtg  
> http://n2.nabble.com/file/n1402041/MRTG_lib.pm MRTG_lib.pm 
>
> If you have any comments don't hesitate to write.
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
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