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. _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com