Andy Black wrote: > In my configuration files, I'm trying to use a <cfg:shell> element that > invokes a batch file (on Windows - it would be a shell script on another > platform). This batch file needs to make use of a system environment > variable that was added by an installation package. > > I noticed that while newly created command prompts know about the new > environment variable, the batch file run from XXE does not. Stopping > and restarting XXE made no difference. It was not until I rebooted the > computer that the command prompt created by the <cfg:shell> element knew > about the new environment variable. > > This makes me wonder if the real problem is somehow Java related, but a > search on the Internet did not help me discover anything. > > Does anyone have an idea as to what the problem may be? (Yes, I know > that forcing all my users to reboot after they run the installation > package would solve the problem, but I'm really trying to avoid that.) >
* In my experience, the behavior you describe is the normal, expected, one on Windows. In my opinion, there is nothing to fix here, either in XXE or in Java. * May be that starting XXE using xxe.bat rather than xxe.exe would solve the problem. * In my experience, there is no need to reboot. Simply tell your users to log off and then to log in again.
