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NAME

ntsrv - start hosted Inferno as Windows service

SYNOPSIS

ntsrv add svcname rootdir cmd [arg ... ]

ntsrv del svcname

DESCRIPTION

Ntsrv is a command (for Windows only) that allows hosted Inferno to run automatically as a Windows service, under Windows 2000 and XP. For Windows NT, use the command ntsrv4, which otherwise has identical interface. Svcname is the (proposed) Windows service name; rootdir is the root of the Inferno directory tree, including the drive letter. Once added, a service can be controlled using the Windows service manager: it may be stopped, started, or have its attributes changed. Svcname is set to start automatically when Windows starts up. Services run by default under the local Windows `System' identity. All Windows processes and threads the service creates (eg, using cmd(3)) are destroyed when the service is stopped. There may be many different services, each with a distinct svcname.

Ntsrv 's first parameter tells it what to do:

add

Add a new service svcname that when started will invoke emu(1) to run the Inferno command cmd with any additional arguments.

del

Delete an existing service svcname.

Ntsrv requires the directory rootdir/Nt/386/bin to contain both emu.exe (ie, emu(1)) and ntsrv.exe itself.

FILES

rootdir/Nt/386/bin

Windows host executables

SOURCE

/utils/ntsrv

SEE ALSO

emu(1)