[Xitami] Xitami service

[Boyan Brezinsky]

>Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:53:19
>To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
>From: "Thomas J. Hruska" <shinelight@shininglightpro.com>
>Subject: Re: [Xitami] Xitami service
>Reply-To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
>
>At 12:06 PM 4/8/2003 -0500, Tom Baker writeth:
>>Hey folks!
>>Recently I changed to the service version of Xitami 2.4d9. I had 
been using
>>the app version, and was having stability problems. So far (at 
least), the
>>service version seems stable. But here's a strange catch:
>>Upon system startup, the Xitami service loads, but does not accept 
incoming
>>connection attempts. If I restart the service, everything is AOK.
>>
>> System specs:
>>P2-350
>>Win2k with all latest patches
>>Static IP business DSL
>>DNS server
>>Mercury/32 mail server
>>ZoneAlarm Pro
>>
>>So here's my guess: Xitami service is loading before ZoneAlarm. When
>>ZoneAlarm starts, it disrupts the port monitoring by Xitami.
>>
>>So... If this is true, does anybody have an idea on how to fix it?
>
>Yup.  That happens.  There's a way to fix it, but it requires writing 
code
>(as far as I know).
>
>Delay start Xitami by making it a dependency of ZoneAlarm in the 
Services
>Control Panel.  To do this, you need to write program that calls
>OpenServiceManager(), OpenService(), ChangeServiceConfig(), and
>CloseServiceHandle().  I don't have time at the moment to do this, 
but
>maybe someone else here will write a quick program that does that for 
you.
>If you want to wait a week and e-mail me to remind me about this (if 
no
>one's done this yet), I'll write it.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>
>          Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@shininglightpro.com
>Shining Light Productions -- "Meeting the needs of fellow 
programmers"
>                  http://www.shininglightpro.com/
>

Can't you just modify the registry entry for the Xitami service by 
adding the value "DependOnService", which is to be set to whatever the 
name of the ZoneAlarm service is?
The only trouble I see in this approach is that the value type is 
REG_MULTI_SZ, which, I believe, is impossible to create through 
Regedit. But it shouldn't be much of a problem with editing an 
exported registry key, which is actually a text file.

Boyan