Re: Strange permissions issues calling 'shell' in Windows

2017-10-31 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
> On 31 Oct 2017, at 9:40 pm, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode > wrote: > > Is there some way that calling 'shell' enters a context with less permission > than the app which calls it? And is there something I can do about this? LiveCode’s shell function on

Re: Strange permissions issues calling 'shell' in Windows

2017-10-31 Thread Mike Bonner via use-livecode
nvm my response, my earlier message poofed due to size. *sigh* here goes again... one thing you might try is to look at the properties for the scheduled job. You obviously have it set to "run whether user is logged in or not" but i'm wondering if "do not store password" box is checked. If it is,

Re: Strange permissions issues calling 'shell' in Windows

2017-10-31 Thread Mike Bonner via use-livecode
i'm on 10, no clue what earlier versions would look like. On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Windows 10? > > Bob S > > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list >

Re: Strange permissions issues calling 'shell' in Windows

2017-10-31 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
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Re: Strange permissions issues calling 'shell' in Windows

2017-10-31 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Hi Bob, Thanks for taking the trouble to consider this. The first thing that comes to my mind is, where are you putting the log file? If you are using a specialfolderpath that only has a context when logged in, then that might be an issue. It isn't that, the file is being created, the

Re: Strange permissions issues calling 'shell' in Windows

2017-10-31 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
The first thing that comes to my mind is, where are you putting the log file? If you are using a specialfolderpath that only has a context when logged in, then that might be an issue. As far as the firewall goes, unless you or your IT team has intentionally blocked RPC traffic, it should have

Strange permissions issues calling 'shell' in Windows

2017-10-31 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
I have an app in LC, which normally runs as a nightly scheduled task on a VM in the client's network. It's been having memory problems, and to help diagnose this I wanted to track memory usage through the job and over time (it runs every night, takes about 40 minutes crunching lots of data,