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Subject: Re: [DAEMON] Procrun documentation
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:07:38 -0700
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From: "sebb" <sebbaz@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [DAEMON] Procrun documentation

> On 18/03/2010, Mladen Turk <mturk@apache.org> wrote:
>> On 03/18/2010 08:13 PM, sebb wrote:
>>
>> > As people may have noticed, I've been trying to update the procrun
>> > documentation.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>  Cool, thanks.
>>  But that doesn't mean you are free to delay the
>>  release forever :)
>>  Let's push the 1.0.3 out and work on improvements.
>>
>
> Yes, fine.
>
> It was when I started trying to test the 1.0.3 build on Win/XP that I
> realised that I had no idea how to. So I decided to document as I
> found things out - and I think I'm nearly there.
>
>> > There are a few details that need clarifying:
>> > - the Start/Stop mode can be jvm, Java or exe. What do these each do?
>> >
>> >
>>
>>  jvm loads the jvm in process, java is just like .exe but it
>>  figures out the .exe from default JVM installed.
>>
>
> So effectively Java mode figures out the value for StartImage/StopImage?
>

Yes, it will override any user supplied StartImage or StopImage.


> Are the options Classname and Method used in Java mode?
> Or just Classname? Or neither?
>

Java mode uses ClassPath, Classname, options, JvmMs, JvmMx, JvmSs (as well 
as StartParams/StopParams).  Since it is executing java.exe, the Method is 
ignored (it will use 'static void main(String [])').

> Presumably these are not used in exe mode, as they would not make sense.
>

Yes, exe is not restricted to running Java.  It can be used to wrap any .exe 
file as a service.  As a result, the entire command line needs to be 
specified in StartParams/StopParams, and the Java specific options like 
Classpath, StartClass, StopClass, etc are ignored.  I've used this in the 
past to convert other non-java programs into services.

>> >
>> > Does Procrun support Daemon mode? If so, how is it configured? I could
>> > not get it to work with the SimpleDaemon example.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>  It doesn't. procrun does not use java daemon code.
>
> OK.
>
> So Procrun and Jsrv have no common API at all?
>

They have no common API at all.  This isn't too surprising, since they exist 
to fill two completely non-overlapping needs.

Jsvc is so that the application (e.g. Tomcat) can perform some privileged 
operations as root (e.g. bind to port < 1024), and then switch identity to a 
non-privileged user.  Since Windows doesn't have the concept of privileged 
ports, there isn't much use for it on Windows, so it largely remained 
non-functional in Windows until Mladen fixed it in 1.0.2.

Procrun is to allow Windows users to wrap (mostly) Java applications (e.g. 
Tomcat) as a service that can be started when the machine boots and will 
continue to run with no user logged onto the machine.  On *nix machines 
there isn't much use for this, since you just place a script in /etc/init.d.

>>
>>  Regards
>>  --
>>  ^TM
>>
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