RE: cfexecute problems
I am having trouble running a Visual FoxPro Executable via CFEXECUTE to do some DBF maniupations on the Server -- the EXE is loaded as a service and then is not released upon execution timeout as specified in the CFEXECUTE statement (20 seconds) -- I included reference to an outputfile but no output is actually generated by the program so the file generated is empty. JasonOU reported to Macromedia that he fixed the problem by running dcomcnfg. He then went to the Default Security tab, clicked on Edit Default under Access Permissions, and added the account which the IIS service uses to execute anonymously (this is generally IUSR_machinename). Since I am running XP Home (without IIS), I am using CF's Internal equivalent of IIS and am wondering what fix works that may be similar to the one suggested by JasonOU to get the EXE released. You might be able to fix this using DCOMCNFG. Within that, you can allow access to the security principle running CF (SYSTEM by default). Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 ~| Purchase from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=35 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:183296 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: cfexecute problems
cfexecute name=c:\tmp\labor.exe arguments=your_file timeOut=10 /cfexecute Tim Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi All, I'm trying to use the cfexecute tag to run an exe file.. but not having any luck. Here is what I have: timeout = 5 I'm getting this error returned (happens no matter how long I set the timeout to be) Timeout period expired without completion of \\dev\wwwroot\InSite\LaborEXE\Labor.exe So I try this: timeout = 2 I get this error: An exception occurred when invoking an external process. The cause of this exception was that: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: E:\inetpub\wwwroot\InSite\LaborEXE\Labor.exe error=3. Please help! running win2k/mx Thanks! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Cfexecute problems
I have experienced situations in which a program does not execute. It was some time ago so I don't know if any of the updaters might have fixed it but the program was image ALCHEMY.EXE (handmadesoftware.com) and it worked fine in CF5... but wouldn't run in CFMX. I opted to use ImageMagick instead (imagemagick.org). -Novak - Original Message - From: Jon Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:40 PM Subject: Cfexecute problems Has anyone run into issue getting cfexecute to work properly in cfmx? Im trying to do some stuff with cvs, but when I execute it, the cvs thread never exits. Its like its waiting for user input, but if you run cvs on the command line it prints out some handy help info and quits. This is on a windows xp box, running update 3 of mx. Netstat works fine, ive even tried putting the cvs.exe in the windows dir with netstat and giving it all the same permissions, but no juice. I am aware that there are a lot of potential pitfalls with windows permissions and security, but I don't think they are whats wrong in this case. Jon. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: cfexecute problems
* Team Allaire * I don't think it's possible. CFEXECUTE does a single command line call. It doesn't 'hold' the connection open at all. For that you need something like COM (or the other CFOBJECT techs). Anyone know how to use cfexecute with a command line program that requires user input after the first line? That is, how do you tell cfexecute that you want to do the first bit, then simulate pressing return, then do the next bit, etc I've tried passing \n, \r, #chr(10)#, #chr(13) and even actually enclosing a real carriage return between quotes and it won't work. Any help would be great. TIA, Aaron Cooper, BSc Application Developer, Freeserve.com Plc The Observatory, 36-41 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R OAU T: 0207 553 4992 M: 07799 191 589 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: cfexecute problems
If the program you are trying to communicate with was build to support the COM interface (probably a .dll) then you can use CFOBJECT. Look for the OleViewer on Microsoft's site it will show you the methods and properties of the program if you have no 3rd party documentation. If you are trying to talk to an exe, you might try using the outputfile property of CFEXECUTE to output the return value of the call to a txt file and then read it back into a variable on the page with cffile. Bryan - Original Message - From: Michael Dinowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:35 AM Subject: Re: cfexecute problems * Team Allaire * I don't think it's possible. CFEXECUTE does a single command line call. It doesn't 'hold' the connection open at all. For that you need something like COM (or the other CFOBJECT techs). Anyone know how to use cfexecute with a command line program that requires user input after the first line? That is, how do you tell cfexecute that you want to do the first bit, then simulate pressing return, then do the next bit, etc I've tried passing \n, \r, #chr(10)#, #chr(13) and even actually enclosing a real carriage return between quotes and it won't work. Any help would be great. TIA, Aaron Cooper, BSc Application Developer, Freeserve.com Plc The Observatory, 36-41 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R OAU T: 0207 553 4992 M: 07799 191 589 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: CFEXECUTE Problems
I've attempted testing this on several similar configurations, both my development and staging servers and am not getting successful results. I've tried including a timeout here as well with no luck. My development and staging machines are both running 4.5.1 and NT 4 SP5 (maybe 4.0 is the problem). If I add an outputfile param on the tag, the 'user /add' command produces no result (empty text file). If I issue a 'user' command, it produces an enumeration list in the file, but also the ambigous 'one or more errors' message. If I issue a different command like 'view', it enumerates all the machines on the domain and reports 'operation completed successfully'. This does make it sound like some sort of rights issue to me. I tried briefly on an NT 4 box, and couldn't get it to work either, but I didn't try very long. Justin MacCarthy also suggested this route but this is turning into more complexity than I have time or resources for right now. I was also provided a good link to Lewis Sellers usermanager suite which appears to contain a bunch of CFX's that will do exactly what I need. I'd guess that Lewis's user manager CFX will do the trick for you, although I haven't tried it personally. In case it doesn't, there's a COM object from http://www.softwareartisans.com/ called SA-Admin which worked well for me. On a tangent, can anyone recommend an FTP server that would integrate well with CF automation? The ultimate goal here is to automate the creation of user accounts and access rights. Currently, I'm trying to add the user to an NT domain (duh) and then I'm assigning server permissions at the file level using xcacls.exe (this works just dandy using CFEXECUTE). I've had few problems using IIS's web server for this. Could you elaborate on this a little for me? Using ADSI, you can script the creation and management of IIS servers, including FTP servers and virtual web servers. The web-based administration interface you can install with IIS uses ADSI to do this. Pretty much any management task can be scripted. If you want to use CF to do this, you can write Windows Script Component files, then call them using CFOBJECT. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: CFEXECUTE Problems
mm... nope, still not working for me. In addition to your example, I've also tried running it from a cmd.exe shell - i.e.: cfexecute name="c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe" arguments="net user testme testme /add" /cfexecute ... still no dice. I couldn't get it to work that way, either. Is your CF service running as localsystem? Yes, it is. I tested this on my development machine, running Win2K and CF 4.5.1. I'm using the standard security configuration (essentially, no security); this might be your problem, if you've modified your user rights and security configuration in one way or another. If you're trying to manipulate users, rights, etc. you might want to take a look at ADSI, which you can use through COM. CFOBJECT isn't really good at doing this, but it's pretty easy to write wrapper objects, and call those objects to do your ADSI tasks. I've used Windows Script Components for this. On a tangent, can anyone recommend an FTP server that would integrate well with CF automation? The ultimate goal here is to automate the creation of user accounts and access rights. Currently, I'm trying to add the user to an NT domain (duh) and then I'm assigning server permissions at the file level using xcacls.exe (this works just dandy using CFEXECUTE). I've had few problems using IIS's web server for this. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: CFEXECUTE Problems
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't TIMEOUT=X required? I believe the docs forget to mention it, but that could be your problem. mm... nope, still not working for me. In addition to your example, I've also tried running it from a cmd.exe shell - i.e.: cfexecute name="c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe" arguments="net user testme testme /add" /cfexecute ... still no dice. I couldn't get it to work that way, either. Is your CF service running as localsystem? -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: CFEXECUTE Problems
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't TIMEOUT=X required? I believe the docs forget to mention it, but that could be your problem. It worked fine without it for me. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: CFEXECUTE Problems
Dave and all, I've gotten several helpful replies now but I'm still a little worried here. Its starting to sound like this isn't a very good approach to my goal. I've added some comments and thoughts inline below: Is your CF service running as localsystem? Yes, it is. I tested this on my development machine, running Win2K and CF 4.5.1. I'm using the standard security configuration (essentially, no security); this might be your problem, if you've modified your user rights and security configuration in one way or another. I've attempted testing this on several similar configurations, both my development and staging servers and am not getting successful results. I've tried including a timeout here as well with no luck. My development and staging machines are both running 4.5.1 and NT 4 SP5 (maybe 4.0 is the problem). If I add an outputfile param on the tag, the 'user /add' command produces no result (empty text file). If I issue a 'user' command, it produces an enumeration list in the file, but also the ambigous 'one or more errors' message. If I issue a different command like 'view', it enumerates all the machines on the domain and reports 'operation completed successfully'. If you're trying to manipulate users, rights, etc. you might want to take a look at ADSI, which you can use through COM. CFOBJECT isn't really good at doing this, but it's pretty easy to write wrapper objects, and call those objects to do your ADSI tasks. I've used Windows Script Components for this. Justing MacCarthy also suggested this route but this is turning into more complexity than I have time or resources for right now. I was also provided a good link to Lewis Sellers usermanager suite which appears to contain a bunch of CFX's that will do exactly what I need. On a tangent, can anyone recommend an FTP server that would integrate well with CF automation? The ultimate goal here is to automate the creation of user accounts and access rights. Currently, I'm trying to add the user to an NT domain (duh) and then I'm assigning server permissions at the file level using xcacls.exe (this works just dandy using CFEXECUTE). I've had few problems using IIS's web server for this. Could you elaborate on this a little for me? Thanks, Ryan Ryan Hill, MCSE Director of Systems Integration Market Matrix, Inc. - http://www.marketmatrix.com -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: CFEXECUTE Problems
First time attempting to use this tag, so I would appreciate a little help here. I am attempting to use CFEXECUTE to execute a 'net user /add' command via CF and its silently failing to create the account I specify. The server service is running under the local system account. You have to call net.exe; this worked for me: cfexecute name="c:\winnt\system32\net.exe" arguments="user testme testme /add" /cfexecute Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
RE: CFEXECUTE Problems
Thanks for replying Dave, mm... nope, still not working for me. In addition to your example, I've also tried running it from a cmd.exe shell - i.e.: cfexecute name="c:\winnt\system32\cmd.exe" arguments="net user testme testme /add" /cfexecute ... still no dice. Is your CF service running as localsystem? Curiously, if I attempt the following: cfexecute name="c:\winnt\system32\net.exe" arguments="user" outputfile="foo.txt" /cfexecute The output file enumerates the user list but also adds one of NT's widely loved ambigous errors: "The operation completed with one or more errors." Of course, it doesn't tell me what those errors are, nor are they logged anywhere I could find. If I turn on event log auditing, I can see the SYSTEM logon being granted access rights to the security subsystem both to add a user and to enumerate users. However, despite appearing to execute successfully, the user is not added to the local account database. On a tangent, can anyone reccomend an FTP server that would integrate well with CF automation? The ultimate goal here is to automate the creation of user accounts and access rights. Currently, I'm trying to add the user to an NT domain (duh) and then I'm assigning server permissions at the file level using xcacls.exe (this works just dandy using CFEXECUTE). Thanks, Ryan Ryan Hill, MCSE Director, Systems Integration Market Matrix, Inc. - http://www.marketmatrix.com -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ryan Hill Subject: RE: CFEXECUTE Problems First time attempting to use this tag, so I would appreciate a little help here. I am attempting to use CFEXECUTE to execute a 'net user /add' command via CF and its silently failing to create the account I specify. The server service is running under the local system account. You have to call net.exe; this worked for me: cfexecute name="c:\winnt\system32\net.exe" arguments="user testme testme /add" /cfexecute Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body. -- Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=listsbody=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
