Hi Mark, I can't comment on all your issues, but can confirm that under cfmx, I have experienced the same problem where cfexecute is is tied to the timeout period, whether or not the process has finished. Quite a pain.
As far as the working directory goes, the programs I was executing were simple .bat files, so all I did was include code to change the directory to be where I wanted. e.g. C: cd mydirectory\mysubdirectory If lynx can be called from a .bat file, then you could include the change directory code before the lynx call. Hope that is of some help. Phil. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CFAussie Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:47 AM Subject: [cfaussie] cfexecute & CFMX > Hi All > > Just a couple of quick questions that I was struggling with last night, > maybe someone can help me. I'm trying to set up a spider using lynx > (with -traversal -crawl) on WIN2K, some of my issues are specifically to do > with this others are more general. > > The two most general issues are: > - cfexecute seems to run for exactly the timeout period regardless of how > long a process actually takes place. Is this correct? > - What directory does cfexecute work in when it is run and can this be > changed? From what I can see it seems to run from the directory in which > jrun lives. My problem here is that lynx just dumps all its logs & cached > pages in the current directory and there is no provision in lynx to specify > an alternate location. > > Lynx specific question: > - Has anyone played with lynx -traversal before especially in conjunction > with coldfusion? The biggest problem that I am having is that when I run the > command from coldfusion (via cfexecute) there don't seem to be ANY files > generated although I've got it working manually from the command line (so I > know my syntax is good) and lynx is definitely being run. > > I'm a bit confused so any help is appreciated. I can hear Geoff already > saying "Verity Spider" :) > > Bit more background, I'm trying to set up a method of following all links > within a domain, reading all pages and checking each one for validity & mark > up errors using tidy. Other side things that will easily spin off from this > are having all the text content on the site downloaded for easy spell > checking & also automatic dead link checking. > > I've got all the pieces working separately, but as soon as I try & get them > together under CF I trip over the first hurdle :( > > > Cheers > > Mark > > > ______________ > Mark Stanton > Web Production > Gruden Pty Ltd > Tel: 9956 6388 > Mob: 0410 458 201 > Fax: 9956 8433 > www.gruden.com > > > ******************************************************************** > This message and any attachments are confidential to the ordinary > user of the e-mail address to which it was addressed and may also > be privileged. If you are not the addressee you may not copy, > forward, disclose or use any part of the message or its > attachments and if you have received this message in error, please > notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete it from > your system. > > Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or > error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, > arrive late or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not > accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of > this message which arise as a result of Internet transmission. > > Before opening or using attachments, check them for viruses and > defects. Our liability is limited to resupplying any affected > attachments. > ******************************************************************** > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
