The same thing happened to me with IIS a year and a half ago. For security
reasons, the web server clamps down on scripts trying to start new
processes. Very annoying, especially since the documentation didn't mention
it.

Unfortunately I never did find a way to start new processes using IIS. I
ended up writing a very simple web server in Perl to solve the problem
instead.

/Henrik

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike
> Brzezinski
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:15 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Running a batchfile from CGI on Win2k server
>
>
> I can't seem to get a batchfile to run on Win2K server from my CGI script:
> I've tried various things using both exec() and system(), such as:
>
> $bfile = "c:/my.bat";
> system($bfile);
>
> system("cmd.exe /x/c c:/my.bat");
>
> system("cmd.exe", '/x/c c:/my.bat');
>
> The funny thing is that system($bfile) works just fine on Win2K
> professional.  I don't notice any other problems running CGI scripts.  Any
> ideas?
>
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