I tried the ProcessTools method and nothing happens there either...
On 12/8/05, Thomas Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>> On 8 Dec 2005, at 14:16,
Tamas Horvath wrote:>> > I know this is not strictly BioJava, but here's my
problem:> > I create a shell script file that would run a GROMACS MD> >
simulationI generate the necessary input and config files> > I can make the
generated shell script runnable> > I cannot actually run the script from the
Java application.> > The script works fine from shell...> > The returned
exitValue is 255.> > Can anyone tell, what may I do?>> Could you give a few
more details about the code you're using to run> the shell script from Java?
Running external processes using Java's> Runtime.exec method isn't totally
trivial -- you usually need to> start some extra threads to handle the child
process' input and output.>> I presume your script is actually printing some
kind of error message> to standard error (or maybe standard out, if it's badly
behaved, but> these may be getting lost.>> BioJava has some convenience met!
hods that (usually) allow you to run> child processes without writing your own
multithreaded code. A> simple usage, that echoes the child's errors and
outputs to the> console, would be something like:>>
ProcessTools.exec(> new String[]
{"/path/to/my/script", "-> someArgument"},> null,
// no standard input> new
OutputStreamWriter(System.out),> new
OutputStreamWriter(System.err)> );>> You probably don't want to do
this in production code, but for> development and debugging it's quite useful.
For production use,> you'd normally use StringWriters to capture the child
process' output.>> Thomas.>
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