mono-service

How can I detect I'm running under mono-service2? (in C#/.NET 3.5, running mono 2.6.7 on ubuntu 11) Type.GetType("Mono.Runtime") tells me I'm running in mono, so that part is ok. But Environment.UserInteractive is always false under mono it seems, so I'm struggling to figure out if I'm actually running under mono-service2 - with no console/terminal. Environment.UserInteractive is the proper solution but, unfortunately, it is currently not implemented in Mono. I may take a look on it someday and upgrade this answer ;) However just to detect you can probably use hacky solution around this one:

I'm trying to write a Mono C# daemon for linux. I'd like to do a starts and stops of it when its done processing instead of just killing the process. Does anyone have any examples of this? Edit: I figured out how to use start-stop-daemon --background in debian, so I think I'll just use that for now. Edit: I'm implementing this in java as well and they have this nice addShutdownHook that catches terminating the app. I need to spend a little more time sorting out the dependencies for mono service, or find a way to catch app termination. There is the SessionEnd event, but thats only available for

Hi I'm trying to use mono-service2 to run a stock Windows Service Project from visual studio. I'm running this on debian with mono 2.0 and compiling with. gmcs *.cs -pkg:dotnet I try and start with this (I've tried with -d set to the dir with the app and -n,-m set) mono-service2 -l:service.lock --debug Program.exe The only code change is to add writelines for testing Service1.cs using System; using System.ServiceProcess; namespace spikes { public partial class Service1 : ServiceBase { public Service1() { InitializeComponent(); } protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { Console