Hi Ruben,

I'm currently just using the output parameter of the <exec> task;

<exec program="publish.bat" output="publish_output.txt" append="true" /
>

I'll pull this out and update the xcopy command in the script file
instead.

Cheers

Dave

On Aug 10, 11:34 am, Ruben Willems <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> how did you redirected to a file?
>
> like this :
>
> mycopy.cmd >log.txt
>
> try using this
> mycopy.cmd >log.txt 2>&1
>
> this will redirect the errorstream to standard out
> hope this will give extra information
>
> with kind regards
> Ruben Willems
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Dave Carson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
> > Well I'm still not much further on with this issue apeart from knowing
> > exactly when in the build process it is occuring.
>
> > Basically the MSBuild part of the process does complete successfully
> > but then it attempts to copy the resulting output (this is a web
> > application) to a shared directory on another server. This makes the
> > latest build available to our test department.
>
> > The copy is performed via xcopy within a batch file which is triggered
> > using an <exec> task. I have configured the task to output to a text
> > file and hoped to see a prompt for input from the user, thus helping
> > me trace the problem. However, all I got was a list of files being
> > copied which stopped part way through - no prompts, no messages -
> > nothing.
>
> > I'm convinced that this is because the system is waiting for a prompt
> > from the user but until I can get sight of it I can't work out how to
> > fix the problem.
>
> > Any Idea..?
>
> > Thanks in Advance
> > Dave
>
> > On Jul 3, 10:28 am, Dave Carson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi Ruben,
>
> > > I've sent the log file directly to you as suggested.
>
> > > As and when we get to the bottom of this I'll update this thread
> > > incase others have the same problem in the future.
>
> > > Cheers
>
> > > Dave
>
> > > On Jul 3, 10:12 am, Ruben Willems <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi
>
> > > > in the build log file should be the nant output,
> > > > it is not visible in the dashboard maybe, but in a text/xml editor you
> > > > should be able to see it.
>
> > > > can you mail a build log file with such a time out to me?
> > > > you may do it to me personally if you do not want it to appear on the
> > list
>
> > > > with kind regards
> > > > Ruben Willems
>
> > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:03 AM, DilbertDave <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > > I have a project in CCNet (1.4.4.83) which has been build happily for
> > > > > some time - until recently that is.
>
> > > > > For some reason it is now failing witha  nAnt timeout exception
> > during
> > > > > the Nightly build - but not every time!
>
> > > > > The main problem is that the logs are incomplete so i cannot tell
> > what
> > > > > has gone wrong.
>
> > > > > All I get is:
> > > > > =========================================
> > > > > Buildfile: file:///E:/[path]/prebuild.build
> > > > > Target framework: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
> > > > > Target(s) specified: StartPreBuild
> > > > > [script] Scanning assembly "l8swjzzy" for extensions.
> > > > > [script] Scanning assembly "e5lqekig" for extensions.
> > > > > [script] Scanning assembly "64nkcjgh" for extensions.
>
> > > > > StartPreBuild:
> > > > > =========================================
> > > > > and that's it!
>
> > > > > Now I know that it gets past the PreBuild stage because other scripts
> > > > > perform SVN commits and these all show up in the repository. I've
> > > > > checked the msbuild_report.xml in the artifacts folder and it appears
> > > > > to be complete and contains nothing to indicate a failure.
>
> > > > > Finally I have checked the ccnet.log files (set to record ERROR
> > > > > messages) and again there is nothing relating to this build.
>
> > > > > Where else can I look and what can I try..?
>
> > > > > Thanks in advance- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > > - Show quoted text -

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