Whitestar said:
That would be handy if you could.
This is an explanation of what I did to serviceize/daemonize FahMon on my Windows computers. You can take it as a how-to or you can take it as a poke in the arm to improve on my (manual) methods. This guide was heavily influenced by Deamon of Little White Dog's Seti@Home team, kudos to him.
Before you start
1.-Admin rights on your b0x. You'll need access to the registry, so if your non-admin rights allow you to fiddle with things in there, have at it.
2.-The Windows NT / Win2k resource kit. It's something like 10 MiB and all you need are two teensy programs, srvany.exe and instsrv.exe. You can download them from places other than Microsoft but I cannot guarantee that they're real. I've uploaded copy of each onto Beansprout's uploader and they should work becasue I've used them before. Here's
instsrv.exe and
srvany.exe
3.-A copy of FahMon set up with your client. You can do the setup later but you might as well do it now.
The Set-Up
Aight, you've got all that jazz and FahMon appears to be working. Kill FahMon so it doesn't get annoyerd if you try to move anything.
Note where the FahMon directory is located.
In the directory where you put the Resource Kit you'll see two programs:
INSTSRV.EXE and
SRVANY.EXE. Move or copy those two to the directory that contains FahMon.exe.
Get Messy
For my examples I have my FahMon.exe located in C:\Fold\fahmon. If yours is located in a different directory you'll just sue that path instead of mine. Letter case does not matter but I've used it so my writing is prettier.
It's time to get your hands dirty. Click on Start then Run. Type cmd then hit enter.
In this step you're going to change to the directory where FahMon.exe is located. For this we'll use the ?cd? command. Type:
Hit enter after you've typed that.
Now you're going to actually create the service. For this you're going to use instasrv.exe and srvany.exe. Type:
Code:
INSTSRV FahMon C:\Fold\fahmon\srvany.exe
Hit enter. Here INSTSRV is the command. You're telling it to make a service called ?FahMon? using the file in ?C:\Fold\fahmon\srvany.exe.
At this point it should look like this:
Registry junk
Minimize the command prompt. Go back to the run box and type regedit.
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SYSTEM>CurrentControlSet>Services>FahMon.
You'll notice that this is very close to the entry for the windows FAH service. In fact, you are probably still on the FAH key from when you set all that -advmethods and -forceasm junk when you set up Folding@Home in the beginning.
It should look like this:
Right-click on
FahMon then click on
New and then
Key.
