RE: [Wrapper-user] Wrapper causes zombie procecesses started from Runtime.getRuntime( exec ( cmd ) );

[Ted H. <thu...@ro...>]

I'm still trying to work through this problem.  I 


>I was having the same problem when running as a service. The problem is 
>actually not
>related to the Wrapper. If Excel runs into any problems while it is 
>running, it will pop up an
>error dialog and not continue until a user has accepted it. The problem 
>of course is that
>when running as a service, there is no way to see the dialog.

The simple example in my previous post (exectest.vbs and exectest.jsp)
simply opens Excel, sleeps then quits. There are no operations to cause
error dialogs.


>To figure out what the error is, I would try running in console mode 
>until you have gotten
>things working. All paths etc should then be the same when running as a 
>service. My first
>guess would be that you are having a path problem. The working directory 
>might not be getting set to what you are expecting.

Would you believe that it works in console mode, but not as a service?  This
is getting more mysterious.

Ted