I'll answer all the responses I got at once: #1 response - Does it have the 'interact with desktop' checkbox on in the service definition? #1 answer - No it didn't. I tried that and it didn't work. See below for output of another test I did.
#2+3 response - Is your PATH set in the system/environment control panel as a System Variable? #2+3 answer - Yes. All environment variables are set as System Variables in Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables I ran 3 tests. Using the <property environment="myenv" /> task, I loaded up all the environment variables. I ran it three ways. 1. As a service, with the "interact with desktop" option enabled. 2. As a service, logging on as a local Administrator account. 3. In a command prompt. The following variables get set with all 3 methods: VCSID PROMPT (Not set via Control Panel...>Environment Variables) PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER TEMP JAVA_HOME ComSpec USERPROFILE (Not set via Control Panel...>Environment Variables) windir TMP OS NTRESKIT ProgramFiles (Not in Control Panel...>Environment Variables) SMS_LOCAL_DIR Os2LibPath PROCESSOR_LEVEL PROCESSOR_REVISION COMPUTERNAME (Not in Control Panel...>Environment Variables) NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS PATHEXT CommonProgramFiles (Not in Control Panel...>Environment Variables) SystemRoot SystemDrive (Not in Control Panel...>Environment Variables) ALLUSERSPROFILE (Not in Control Panel...>Environment Variables) PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE ANT_HOME SYSTEM_ROOT When I run it as a Service, interacting with the desktop, that's all I get. When I run it as a Service logging on as a local Administrator, I get all of the above plus: USERDOMAIN USERNAME When I run it in a Command prompt I get everything in the first list plus: USERDOMAIN USERNAME HOMEDRIVE APPDATA LOGONSERVER HOMEPATH PATH That jog anything? time to start digging into Execute.java's getProcEnvironment() method???????? --- Mark Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Does anyone know why Ant running under a Service on W2K might not > have > >access to all environment variables (specifically Path)? > > Are some of your environment variables USER or SYSTEM? > > If the relevant ones are USER - > > NT Services run against a particular account. By default it's > something > like 'LocalSystem'. You can set the login you want the service to > run > under. If you set this to the user account you personally use, this > should > work. Otherwise, make the relevant environment variables SYSTEM > vars. > > Mark > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
