Hi all,
I'm encountering a rather strange error when doing an external action
on a shell script that just opens up an FTP connection from the
server and drops a file off and closes out. Running the script via
command line worked fine, but when I did the external action, it said
gave me t
I'm running tomcat on the same webserver as IIS and trying to make an
external call to my jsp pages using the external action and getting the
following error. The documentation for the external action is vague. Any
Ideas. Thanks
Error communicating with Java server.
Invalid magic number.
@witango.com
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: External Action
Vicky,
When you double-click it, you are "in" the folder, and it is your
current directory.
However, when it is executed by an external action, the current
directory is something else, like c:\windows, or c:\windows\system32
The
Ah.
Ok, trying it.
Also, E:\ is a partition on the server that stores the web files
-Original Message-
From: Bill Downall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 16, 2005 2:43 PM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: External Action
Vicky,
When you double-click it
Convert.exe is copied to that folder …/images
From: Robert Garcia
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 16, 2005 2:39 PM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk:
External Action
Go to http://www.bighead.net/tools
and take a look at witango_cmd. There
Bill's right. It's always safest to have your bat file change to the
drive/directory you need to perform the bat commands on.
One other thought since you are doing something on E:\ ... and that might
be a mapped drive. Our App Servers live on a separate box from our Web
Servers so we usually do
Vicky,
When you double-click it, you are "in" the folder, and it is your
current directory.
However, when it is executed by an external action, the current
directory is something else, like c:\windows, or c:\windows\system32
The E: and CD commands make the images folder current no matter how the
Go to http://www.bighead.net/tools and take a look at witango_cmd. There is specific examples for imagemagick and a readme.In your batch, if you stay that route, the external command doesn't run from the same dir as the taf, use absolute paths for the file names, and if convert is not in your PATH
But if I execute the file by double clicking on it then it does...
correctly...
-Original Message-
From: Bill Downall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 16, 2005 2:35 PM
To: witango-talk@witango.com
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: External Action
Vicky,
Either put CD commands into your
Vicky,
Either put CD commands into your img.bat file, or put the full path to
each of the jpgs in there. e.g:
===
e:
cd \appfolder\images
convert -resize 25x25 in.jpg out.jpg
===
Bill
Vicky Bagwalla wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I am using T2K and have an ‘External’ Action with the following:
>
Hello,
I am using T2K and have an ‘External’
Action with the following:
Command Line (Windows and Unix)
Command: E:\AppFolder\Images\img.bat
The img.bat has the following:
Convert –resize 25x25 in.jpg
out.jpg
It is not executing the img.bat from what
I can see. Now if
I've notice that ALL my external actions throw an error in the log.
Does anyone have any clues on eliminating these errors? (on linux).
The process is always: Forking Process --> Waiting on the child
process --> Error: No child processes --> Waiting done.
I'd like to eliminate the "Error:
Lockwood
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Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 3:40 PM
To: WiTango-Talk
Subject: Witango-Talk: external
action
I have a small bat file that copies
files from one folder to another, works fine when accessed directly but
doesn’t work as an external action. Any ideas?
Chuck
Most likely absolutePathPrefix is preventing you from executing files at
C:\
>I have a small bat file that copies files from one folder to another, works
>fine when accessed directly but doesn't work as an external action. Any
>ideas?
>
>
>
>Chuck Lockwood
>~~~
: Friday, May 21, 2004 2:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk:
external action
If your external action says something like...
<@webroot>myfolder\copyfiles.bat
have you tried outputting that as text to make sure the path
it's giving is the ri
Friday, May 21, 2004 12:39 PM
Subject: Witango-Talk: external
action
I have a small bat file that
copies files from one folder to another, works fine when accessed directly but
doesnt work as an external action. Any ideas?
Chuck
I have a small bat file that copies files from one folder to
another, works fine when accessed directly but doesn’t work as an
external action. Any ideas?
Chuck
Lockwood
LockData Technologies,
Inc.
309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:23:49 -0600, Scott Cadillac wrote:
>I'm guessing the path examples in your post are not the real pathnames,
so
>make sure if any of the real pathnames have spaces, that you quote
them,
>sorta like:
Scott, Thanks for helping.
This batch files works fine from a command pro
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> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Downall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 10:44 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: External action problems, WS-FTP
>
>
> O
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:32:09 -0600, Scott Cadillac wrote:
>Does the batch file start with something like:
>cd c:\somepath\wsftp_pro
>Depending on your Server setup and where things are located, Witango
doesn't
>necessarily execute batch commands relative to the batch file.
Yes. Everything spec
all [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Witango-Talk: External action problems, WS-FTP
>
>
> I'm having trouble getting a taf to execute a command line
> file with a one
> line command that starts WS
I'm having trouble getting a taf to execute a command line file with a one
line command that starts WS-FTP Pro with a silent script. (Win 2000
server.)
In this case, the batch file launches FTPSCRPT.EXE with parameters that
tell it what WS-FTP "script" to run.
command file looks like this:
c:
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Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: External Action !?
Sorry that my last systems programming was DOS-15 on the DEC PDP-9 (which
MS-DOS resembled, and of course from which VMS and hence Windows NT
evolved), but there usually a requireme
n a temporary file !
>
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>From: "Bill Conlon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:45 AM
>Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: External Action !?
>
>
>I know nothing about your platform, but are y
Sorry. but I don't open a temporary file !
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From: "Bill Conlon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: External Action !?
I know nothing about your platform, but ar
I know nothing about your platform, but are you closing the temporary
files when you finish the External Action.
Most OS's I know of limit the number of files that can be simultaneously
open. Maybe you're hitting the limit.
>Hi,
>I have a problem (some time) when I call a External Action like th
Hi,
I have a problem (some time) when I
call a External Action like this
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[Error] Can not generate a temporary file
name for the "c:\COMFerra\TraCalc.exe" program specified in the external action
Form this point. all the external
Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Antworten an: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Datum: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:38:23 -0500
>> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Betreff: Re: Witango-Talk: External action script won't write file to
>> disk
> on
>> OSX (was Ext Action & ImageMagi
.tafs to
servers.
Christian
> Von: Robert Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Antworten an: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Datum: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:23:39 -0700
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Re: Witango-Talk: External Action & ImageMagick on Mac OS X
>
> If you are writing the
Von: Chris Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Antworten an: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Datum: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 23:38:23 -0500
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Re: Witango-Talk: External action script won't write file todisk
on
> OSX (was Ext Action & ImageMagick on Mac OS X
Thanks, this is helpful to know, and I may take you up on your offer very
soon.
However, right now I simply need to be able to use an external action to
trigger a script that writes a file to disk. Besides ImageMagick, I have
another script I want to use to pare down a very large log file to just
If you are writing the file out, make sure the user witango has writes
to where it is being written.
I spent a lot of time with imagemagick about a year ago or so. I wanted
to have a crossplatform method for doing high quality scaling. I
already did all kinds of conversions with RealBasic, b
How would I do this? I tried changing permissions to 775 and even 777 and I
still received the same error.
Chris
> Has'nt that to do with write pernmissions? You might have to act as
> root for some actions.
>
> Christian
>
> Am Samstag, 28.06.03 um 18:28 Uhr schrieb Chris Millet:
>
>> I set u
Trying to convert an image from one format to another, then write the file.
Chris
> What are you trying to do with ImageMagick?
>
> Robert.
>
> On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 09:28 AM, Chris Millet wrote:
>
>> I set up a simple script invoking the 'whoami' command and it works
>> fine
>> bot
Has'nt that to do with write pernmissions? You might have to act as
root for some actions.
Christian
Am Samstag, 28.06.03 um 18:28 Uhr schrieb Chris Millet:
I set up a simple script invoking the 'whoami' command and it works
fine
both from the command line and as an external action. However,
What are you trying to do with ImageMagick?
Robert.
On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 09:28 AM, Chris Millet wrote:
I set up a simple script invoking the 'whoami' command and it works
fine
both from the command line and as an external action. However, when I
rewrite the script to invoke ImageMag
I set up a simple script invoking the 'whoami' command and it works fine
both from the command line and as an external action. However, when I
rewrite the script to invoke ImageMagick's 'convert' utility, it works fine
from the command line, but not as an external action. Instead, I receive the
fol
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To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: External Action Using Perl Files
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:09:06 +0100
Mike,
Yes, I have a few TAFs (and TCFs) that jump out to external actions that
invoke Perl. One example would be the changes I
that should be enough to get you going...
Jon
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From: mike bravu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 30 July 2002 18:00
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: External Action Using Perl Files
Jon,
Thank you for your response. Is this some
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Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: External Action Using Perl Files
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:12:26 +0100
Mike,
In external actions, I just invoke the Perl interpreter also, something
like:
c:\perl\bin\perl.exe c:\myscrip.pl
Jon
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From: mike bravu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE
Mike,
In external actions, I just invoke the Perl interpreter also, something
like:
c:\perl\bin\perl.exe c:\myscrip.pl
Jon
-Original Message-
From: mike bravu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 30 July 2002 3:10
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: Witango-Talk
Hello all,
Does anybody know how to invoke external action when the executable is a
Perl file and/or has such an example or documentation?
All I get is this Tango Server error:
Unable to execute command line external action: D:\_KA\admin\myFile.pl
%1 is not a valid Win32 application.
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