Run Poker Mavens Server as a service

[Patrick]

I've made a little Windows-Service wrapper for the Poker Mavens Server.
With this small piece of software it is possible to run the server as a service.
Documentation and source code included.
This solution works fine on my Windows 2003 Server. (a VPS from 1and1)

If you have questions, feedback or any other stuff please reply to this thread.

License: MIT-License

Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/294302272/P ... ervice.zip

[BookieBuddy]

What does server as a service mean/do?

[Kent Briggs]

What does server as a service mean/do?

A Windows service is a program that runs in the background and starts automatically when the computer boots, even though no one is logged in. As opposed to a regular application program that is manually started and runs on the desktop. Poker Mavens has an "Auto start at bootup" option but it requires that you have Windows configured to log you in automatically at bootup. Patrick's service utility will start the Poker Mavens server so that no one has to be logged into a Windows session and then you can use the Remote Admin interface for maintenance. In future versions, I plan to make Poker Mavens run as a true service rather than as a desktop app. But that requires divorcing the GUI interface from the server code and that's going to be a lot of work.

[BookieBuddy]

understood, mostly : )

[johnBB]

Can anybody post these files? No longer available on RapidShare.

Many thanks if anybody can upload a copy.

[Kent Briggs]

I don't have the original program that Patrick made so I went ahead and made one myself:

http://www.briggsoft.com/docs/pmavens/Utilities.htm

It requires some manual installation so be sure to follow the instructions carefully. Note that you no longer have a Windows console interface when you launch it this way so all admin functions have to be performed via the remote admin interface.

[ddominguez]

Excellent Work kent