[AccessD] Access as Service (What is a service?)

DWUTKA at marlow.com DWUTKA at marlow.com
Mon Feb 9 08:21:04 CST 2004


A service is a program that runs in the background of the OS.  In Windows 9x
machines, services are setup in the registry, and there is little you can do
with them, other then put them in the registry, and reboot.  The real key of
a 'service', is that it runs no matter who is logged on, or even if anyone
is logged on at all.

Why would that be important?  Simple.  Take for example a Firewall program.
You would want your firewall to be running whenever your computer is on, not
just when you are logged in.  

In Windows NT (NT 4.0, 2k, XP), there is a 'services' panel in the control
panel.  This lists all of the programs that are setup as services on your
machine.  Each program can be set to Automatic, Manual, or Disabled. (which
determines how the service is started when your OS boots).  You can also
stop/start the various services.  There are other options available,
depending on what OS you are using.

I hope this answers your question.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Joe Hecht
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 10:30 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Access as Service (What is a service?)


What DO they mean a service and how would access be such a service?

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:16 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access as Service

On 29 Jan 2004 at 9:28, ggonzalez at cccis.com wrote:
> 
> Has anyone ever had to run an Access application as a service on a
> computer? if so can you pint me in the direction on how I could do
this.
> 

Never tried it with Access, but take a look at FireDaemon 
http://www.firedaemon.com/

"FireDaemon is a utility that allows you to install and run virtually 
any native Win32 application or script (eg. BAT/CMD, Perl, Java, 
Python, TCL/TK) as a Windows NT/2K/XP/2K3/Longhorn service. 
FireDaemon features easy configuration (via GUI or XML), a low 
memory/CPU overhead, subprocess prioritisation, custom environments, 
CPU binding plus monitoring and logging to the event log and on-disk 
log files. "

 
-- 
Lexacorp Ltd
http://www.lexacorp.com.pg
Information Technology Consultancy, Software Development,System 
Support.



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