Some very good suggestions. I will give them a try. Thanks. Robert Casto
......................................................... CinciJava | Java Development and Training Robert Casto | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 513-349-JAVA | www.cincijava.com -----Original Message----- From: Frank Lawlor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:31 PM To: Tomcat (E-mail) Subject: Re: Launching subprocess under Tomcat as a Service You should try to figure out what it is hanging on. Add some tracing. You can launch a subprocess, but it is running as the service user in a service environment. This is VERY likely different from your non-service environment. To help debug: - print out the path to a file - print out the classpath ... - print out the env ... - remember that services are usually set to NOT be able to interact with the desktop. Try changing it to yes. - remember that it may have different permissions so it might not have access to resources that you do. - remember that you cannot access mounted drives Frank Lawlor Athens Group, Inc. (512) 345-0600 x151 Athens Group, an employee-owned consulting firm integrating technology strategy and software solutions.
