On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:13:04 -0400, gijs meirmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the documentation of cfexecute the effective user is mentioned. > I like to know how to find out the user who executes the executable fired by > cfexecute. I think this is the effective user, but when i try to found out > about it on the web I could not find a thing about it. > > Can anybodie help me with this, i like to use scp to transfer some files from > the databaseserver server to the aplicationserver server. >
It's the user that the coldfusion process (or jrun if you're using the J2EE version) is running as. However, I would strongly advise that you stay away from cfexcute on unix systems if you can. Because of the way the fork() method was implemented on unix systems (which is what cfexecute calls under the hood to run the external process) it duplicates the amount of memory of the calling process to run the external process, which is crazy. So, for example, if your JRun process is currently taking up 1 GB of RAM (a pretty common JVM size), then cfexecute will run the external process using 1 GB of RAM, which will very quickly throw an Out of Memory exception. I learned this the hard way so I figured I'd save you the hassle down the road. In single-user testing you might not see the error because you might have enough swap space to create this second process, but any more than a couple of users will bring your system to a grinding halt. So I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but I would find another way to do it. Mind you, this is not Macromedia's problem -- it's a UNIX problem that is just a known implementation issue. Regards, Dave. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:185680 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
