I know from reading later in this thread he didn't in this case. Not that I would use any of them in a development environment there are plenty of "Compatibility Layer" type applications out there that will allow many Windows applications to run on linux. Even Microsoft Office. (See Wine, and Cross Office (think I have that right).
Fred On Wednesday 18 December 2002 07:35 am, you wrote: > Alright, I'll bite... Dave, what did you do to get a windows binary working > on a linux box? Secondly, if it were to work, you might have to chown it > over to the user that CFMX runs under. > > ~Todd > > At 12:33 PM 12/18/2002 +0000, you wrote: > >Stick > >the > > > >outputFile = "Output file name" > >timeout = "Timeout interval"> > > > >parameters in to get the returned error or whatever > > > >Without the timeout param it won't wait for the program to return, just > >spawn a process and return. > > > >To check if its permissions, log in as the cfserver user, and try to > > execute it yourself. > > > >Justin > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Dave Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: 18 December 2002 12:02 > > > To: CF-Linux > > > Subject: Strange cfexecute problem > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Running CFMX on Redhat 7.2, apache 1.3.x as per Macromedia > > > recommendations. > > > > > > I've a rather confusing problem concerning cfexecute and > > > htmldoc.exe, a pdf > > > generating tool [1]. I'm using original codebase which worked perfectly > > > on my old windows configuration and simply modified the relevant paths > > > to the linux filesystem. I thought maybe it might be a permissions > > > issue whereby user apache doesnt have permissions to execute htmldoc, > > > however I ran a dummy test on netstat which behaved in exactly the same > > > manner. > > > > > > The templates concerned are being returned without error and no errors > > > are showing up in any of the logs. The name and argument attributes > > > have been checked and double checked to be correct and manually > > > submitting the command > > > and arguments on the machine as root user works perfectly, thus > > > I'm thinking > > > it may be a permissions problem with the apache user whom I > > > believe is also > > > the cfmx user(?!?) If so, how do I configure apache user with > > > permissions to > > > execute? Bear in mind I've already tried a chmod 777 on the htmldoc.exe > > > file. > > > > > > The following is a short sample of my code for trying netstat.exe > > > > > > <cfset parameters="-lpn"> > > > <cfexecute name="/bin/netstat" arguments="#parameters#"></cfexecute> > > > > > > TIA, > > > Dave > > > > > > [1] HTMLDoc info can be found at > > > >http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/htmldoc.html > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=14 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
