Right you are! I added the Impersonate='no' and the error 5 issues went away! Thank you! :)
On 3/1/2013 7:46 PM, Rob Mensching wrote: > Two things: > 1. Running batch files is generally frowned upon. <smile/> > 2. That said, I think you need to add Impersonate='no'. > Bonus: commit actions are kinda' special. Are you sure you don't want > to just run the action deferred and really late in the sequence instead? > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Vern Graner <v...@txis.com > <mailto:v...@txis.com>> wrote: > > I was wondering if someone might be able to point me in the right > direction here- > > I have a Custom Action that triggers a small batch file to update > a log > file when the MSI completes. Here's the WiX source snippet: > > <CustomAction Id="RunLogUpdate" > Directory="Workstation_1" > ExeCommand="cmd.exe /c > "[Workstation_1]LogUpdate.bat"" > Return="ignore" > Execute="commit" /> > > This has worked well for me on my Windows XP machines and on Windows 7 > machines - with the UAC disabled. > > However, recently one of my customers noted these batch-file created > logs on his systems were not getting updated. Looking a bit deeper we > saw the log file was getting "Error 5 -access denied" when it is > invoked > by the MSI on a machine where UAC is enabled. > > Based on this observation, I am theorizing that, though the MSI itself > has sufficient rights to perform its actions, it is *not* endowing the > child process (the batch file) with the same permission levels. :( > > If this is the case, is there a way to make sure the spawned > script runs > with the same permissions as the MSI? > > TIA! > > Vern > > -- > Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE | "If the network is down, then you're > Senior Systems Engineer | obviously incompetent so why are we > Texas Information Services | paying you? Of course, if the network > http://www.txis.com | is up, then we obviously don't need > Austin Office 512 328-8947 <tel:512%20328-8947> | you, so why are > we paying you?" ©VLG > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE | "If the network is down, then you're Senior Systems Engineer | obviously incompetent so why are we Texas Information Services | paying you? Of course, if the network http://www.txis.com | is up, then we obviously don't need Austin Office 512 328-8947 | you, so why are we paying you?" ©VLG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
