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)