Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: system() or `` calls on IIS?

Apr 14, 2005, 7:03 AM

Andy

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Apr 14, 2005, 7:03 AM

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system() or `` calls on IIS?

Hi,

Got an NT machine, and it won't let me run external programs with the system() or `` commands :|

Is there a different way of doing this on NT? Normally a system command works... so I'm not sure why it won't this time :/

TIA

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Apr 14, 2005, 1:12 PM

Alex

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Apr 14, 2005, 1:12 PM

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Hi,

Why won't it let you run it?

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Alex
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Apr 14, 2005, 8:03 PM

Chaz

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Apr 14, 2005, 8:03 PM

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I'm assuming you're running IIS 5 but this link might at least give you something to google on:

http://www.4images.com/ntperl/iis4.htm#io

~Charlie

Apr 15, 2005, 1:09 AM

Andy

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Apr 15, 2005, 1:09 AM

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Hi,

Thanks. It just gives me errors :/

Quote:

[Fri Apr 15 08:45:43 2005] D:\inetpub\wwwroot\downloads.domain.com\pdf_download.cgi: Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at D:\inetpub\wwwroot\downloads.domain.com\pdf_download.cgi line 112.

The code looks like;

Code:
    my $cmd = qq{D:\\\Batch2PDF\\\Batch2PDF.exe -f $destsite$ID.doc -s $dest_folder -d $dest_folder}; 

#    system '"$cmd"' || die "$?,$!"; 
    open(WRITECOM, ">D:\\tempPDF\\$destsite-$ID.bat"); 
     print WRITECOM qq{$cmd};                        
    close(WRITECOM);  
    my $cmd2 = qq{D:\\tempPDF\\$destsite-$ID.bat}; 
    system($cmd2);

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Apr 15, 2005, 1:12 AM

Andy

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Apr 15, 2005, 1:12 AM

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Hi,

I've managed to get a bit more working, by uploading a netapi32.dll file into d:/Batch2PDF/, and that got rid of some of the errors. It still seems to be dying though :/

Quote:

9:05:52 AM Batch2PDF.exe:1956 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINNT\system32\MSVBVM60.DLL SUCCESS Attributes: N
9:05:52 AM Batch2PDF.exe:1956 OPEN C:\WINNT\WINHELP.INI FILE NOT FOUND Options: Open Access: All
9:05:52 AM Batch2PDF.exe:1956 OPEN C:\WINNT\WINHELP.INI FILE NOT FOUND Options: Open Access: All
9:05:52 AM Batch2PDF.exe:1956 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINNT\system32\.HLP FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
9:05:52 AM Batch2PDF.exe:1956 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINNT\system32\.HLP FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
9:05:52 AM Batch2PDF.exe:1956 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINNT\Help\.HLP FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
9:05:52 AM Batch2PDF.exe:1956 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINNT\Help\.HLP FILE NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
9:05:52 AM Batch2PDF.exe:1956 CLOSE D:\inetpub\wwwroot\downloads.domain.com SUCCESS

Any ideas?

TIA

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk