work herd problem

Possessed Freak

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Back in rc5, one could make rc5 a service and call it something like cpusrv or something 'normal'.

Boss allowed me to install rc5 as a service and I did on 5 work machines, but he explicitly said that users WILL be allowed to see the task manager and end tasks in case ms word or visio or vc++ more more likely explorer lock up. Neither my boss or I have been approached wondering why a service called CPUSERV or something akin to it has 100% of the cpu resources. My boss will NOT allow me to assimilate the work herd if the service is stuck being called seti. NOR will he allow the service in the program files directory, he wants it is in the winnt/system32 directory. Namely because he likes neatness and seti is not a 'program'.

I have been working with the seti as a service install scripts and in pure randomness I wil eventually get the combo right, but could somebody who is let's say, more used to these scripts, make a new one that shoves the seti files into c:\winnt\system32 and have the service show up as cpuserv or something equally less scary than 'seti' in the task manager.

30 PIV's and 24 P3's hang in the balance.

let me reiterate, I do have full permission and my boss thinks the DC stuff is cool. I approached him a while ago and got rc5 on 5 machines, but did not go for the lab since they were old IBM p2-266's at that time.

OT from that, I am to get cracking on project 2.0 (fibre channel) and should know by tomarrow if I 1) destroyed my computer (90% possibility of hapening) 2) start a fire (50% possibility of happening) 3) work in the end (99% chance of happening) REGARDLESS, I wil have pictures to show everyone this debaticle.

speling ore gramer erors rool.
 

Possessed Freak

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lol, thats so cool, cause you see, TWTA is racing against the fed's and yet engineer bumps this thread that could possibily cause the race to turn in TWTA's favor... true team spirit :D
 

Sukhoi

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Check my SETI service install!!! I have everything called keyboard and it's stuck way deep in the system32 folder! :D

Hrmmm, actually SETILog may still show up as SETILog, but the CLI will show up as keyboard. Lemme mess around some this weekend and see if I can rename SETILog too.
 

Possessed Freak

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ah, looking promising, checking it out on my trial system (my duron has 5 seti services on it right now)


btw, how does one uninstall this thing ... 4 times!
 

Sukhoi

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What do you mean "4 times"?

Just go into the control panel and stop the service. Then delete the registry folder. Finally reboot, and then delete the SETI folder.

On my Win98SE system I just tried renaming SETILog to keyboard and the CLI to keyboard2, and it worked great! I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work in NT. I'll try to change the service install with the new names tomorrow.
 

soni

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I have just updated my seti as service description.

There you can read how to rename the service, and some more..
Please say if it's still to cryptic, then I will have to spell this out.

PS: This is for those who know a bit about windows OS ;)

Edit: Have added a description at the bottom about the install.bat file.
Tried to descripe where to change something, and what files is affect ;)
Hope it helps..
 

Possessed Freak

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4 times, I have seti installed on my duron so many times to try to get the right combo working, but your previous reply tells me how to kill off all those attempts.

thanks for all the replies, we shall see what hapens on monday when I talk to the boss again :)