On Feb 7, 4:57 pm, T <misceveryth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions - I think my next step is to try running > it under an admin user account, as you guys both mentioned. Alf - > you're absolutely right, Microsoft has srvany.exe, which allows you to > run any EXE as a Windows service. I've done this in the past, but > it's more of a "hack"..so this go around (since I will be distributing > this program), I wanted to go the more professional route..which, > unfortunately, involves learning the "scum". :) I posted this to > comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, so we'll see if what the Win32 > programmers have to say as well. Thanks again!
I use windows services and they are very reliable. I would say though that relying on plink.exe is much less reliable than either python or the service that it is running under. Why not take a look at paramiko as the ssh client library? I think it runs under windows. Also perhaps Twisted has something. Either way would be light years ahead of using subprocess with plink. Just my thoughts. ~Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
