[Opensim-dev] Feature Request ...
Kyle Hamilton
aerowolf at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 08:52:22 UTC 2008
System.ServiceProcess does not exist on Mono. And, technically,
srvany is just as much of a wrapper as what Stefan's suggesting. It
just loads the target process into the service process, then sets the
Service thread to start the entry point of the executable and runs it.
It also handles Stop events, by killing the thread that it started.
I'm not sure what Pause should do, since I've only rarely seen
services that implement it.
Also, that 'LastIndexOf' example that Stefan suggested won't work on
any UNIX, since it relies on the backslash being the directory
separator. It should check for one, then the other (I suggest
checking for '/' first, since that's also a reserved character in
NTFS).
And: you may not be able to use the Main class directory, but you've
implemented your wrapper. You can load the assembly from your
wrapper, then do exactly what you're doing now in your "bad hack".
-Kyle H
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Develope <Develope at ashuan.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thank you for answering so fast ...
>
> @Kyle Hamilton
> 1. You can also use srvany.exe from Microsoft to turn any .exe into a
> service. http://www.iopus.com/guides/srvany.htm has information.
>
> --- If you do that, you are not able to control your service like
> OnStart(). The Memoryallocation in "real" Services (ServiceBase) is much
> faster than them doing under srvany. There are many other drawbacks
> using srvany.exe (Logging, dependencies, rightsmanagement, installation
> ...)
>
> @ Stefan Andersson
> 2) To be able to do so, you should implement the services as 'wrappers',
> separate applications that _use_ the Main Classes, not change or expand
> on them, like for example for the grid service wrapper:
>
> partial class GridServ : ServiceBase
> {
> private GridServerBase m_gridApplication;
>
> protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
> {
> // Define working directory (For a service, this is set to
> System dir by default...)
> Process pc = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
> string useDirectory = pc.MainModule.FileName.Substring(0,
> pc.MainModule.FileName.LastIndexOf(@"\"));
> Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(useDirectory);
> log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure();
> m_gridApplication = new GridServerBase();
> m_gridApplication.Startup();
> }
> }
>
> (This snippet taken from Tribal Medias proprietary service wrappers -
> feel free to copy+paste.)
>
> --- It is impossible to not change the main applications, cause they
> all went into
> public void Work()
> {
> m_console.Notice("Enter help for a list of commands\n");
>
> while (true)
> {
> m_console.Prompt();
> }
> }
>
> Holding a Service into a loop or in console.readline make the
> OnStart() not responsable for the machine and nothing runs.
>
> --- Is the System.ServiceProcess not implemented in Mono ? If so there
> is no problem doing this. In my solution all executables are running as
> service and doing well (Win 2003). I try to evaluate how it works in
> mono.
>
> --- My implementation is:
> Here is the first bad hack
> public /*abstract*/ class BaseOpenSimServer :
> System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase
> {
> ...
> public static void RunService(BaseOpenSimServer
> pInstance, string[] args)
> {
> ...
> }
> ...
> }
>
> In case of Gridserver ...
> public static void Main(string[] args)
> {
> XmlConfigurator.Configure();
>
> GridServerBase.RunService(new GridServerBase(), args);
>
> //GridServerBase app = new GridServerBase();
>
> //app.Startup();
> //app.Work();
> }
> Thats all.
> --- You can now start your application with parameter '/Install' or
> '/unistall' to create this service or to uninstall it.
> --- You chose if it starts as a service and how its name an dependencies
> only in app.config of the diffrent projects.
> If you dont want to run this as service switch in app.config.
>
>
> Greetz
>
> Kai
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Kyle Hamilton
> Sent: Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2008 00:24
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Feature Request ...
>
> You can also use srvany.exe from Microsoft to turn any .exe into a
> service. http://www.iopus.com/guides/srvany.htm has information.
>
> -Kyle H
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Stefan Andersson
> <stefan at tribalmedia.se> wrote:
>> Excellent! We really need windows service wrappers for the various
> exe's.
>>
>> A couple of pointers:
>>
>> 1) Since this is (in practice) a windows-only project, you should
> implement
>> this as a 'forge' project;
>> http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/
>>
>> 2) To be able to do so, you should implement the services as
> 'wrappers',
>> separate applications that _use_ the Main Classes, not change or
> expand on
>> them, like for example for the grid service wrapper:
>>
>> partial class GridServ : ServiceBase
>> {
>> private GridServerBase m_gridApplication;
>>
>> protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
>> {
>> // Define working directory (For a service, this is set to
>> System dir by default...)
>> Process pc = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
>> string useDirectory = pc.MainModule.FileName.Substring(0,
>> pc.MainModule.FileName.LastIndexOf(@"\"));
>> Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(useDirectory);
>> log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator.Configure();
>> m_gridApplication = new GridServerBase();
>> m_gridApplication.Startup();
>> }
>> }
>>
>> (This snippet taken from Tribal Medias proprietary service wrappers -
> feel
>> free to copy+paste.)
>>
>> 3) When you've done the wrappers, the next step is to add a method to
>> communicate with the consoles. One way to go about it is to have the
> service
>> process redirect the console in and output to a named pipe, and then
> supply
>> a console app that listens/writes to those pipes.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Stefan Andersson
>> Tribal Media AB
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:53:32 +0100
>> From: Develope at Ashuan.de
>> To: Opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Feature Request ...
>>
>>
>> Hi Friends,
>>
>>
>>
>> i wish to implement the feature to run all Gridcomponents (Userserver,
>> Assetserver ....) as a Service.
>>
>> My work is now only to evaluate how easy or not it is ... it is easy
> .. but
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> I must add an Reference to the System.ServiceProcess in several
> Project.
>>
>> Now my question ...
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a Problem doing this?
>>
>> And second how do i include an reference into a .patch-File?
>>
>>
>>
>> Kai
>>
>>
>>
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