ntsrv - start hosted Inferno as Windows service ntsrv add "svcname rootdir cmd" " [" arg " ... ]"

ntsrv del svcname

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.

.TF c:/inferno/Nt/386/bin

rootdir /Nt/386/bin Windows host executables

/utils/ntsrv emu (1)