Spawner.exe is an IBM Lan Server or MS Lan Manager service that spawns other programs.

This allows these other programs to be controlled as if they were services themselves.

For example. The FTP Daemon (ftpd.exe) is a normal command line OS/2 executable. It can not normally be started as a service.

Using the Spawner service, you can now start ftpd.exe as if it were a service using a command similar to:

NET START FTP

This also allows management of remote hosts using NETGUI.

I have also used this to control Seti@Home, Apache, MySQL and others. For the full readme file, please follow the link to Spawner.txt below.

Requires:

IBM LAN Server (or Peer).

Microsoft LAN Manager.