[Zope] Problems Executing pdftk from within zope.

[Jonathan]

Don't know if this will help, but here is a line from one of my external 
methods that works:

        rstat = commands.getstatusoutput('./qrcode '+quoted_instr)

'qrcode' is a bash script file (linux) that resides in '/apps/zope/var' (no 
messing around with PATH or environment variables) and takes a string 
'quoted_instr' as an input parameter.

if you do 'return str(rstat)'  after the call you should get some error info 
if the call fails.

HTH

Jonathan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Westrick" <jerry at westrick.com>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Problems Executing pdftk from within zope.


> On Saturday 08 April 2006 01.24, Jonathan wrote:
>> Have you tried running it as a spawned job from the shell?  If something 
>> is
>> pooched in the environment then the job should hang (then you know it is
>> not a zope problem).
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>
> Using the "if __name__ == '__main__': main()"
> I have executed the command from the External script file
> (as user root) with "python aw4.py ecmd2" and it works...
>
> But when called from zope it hangs...
>
> I've tried with popen(...)
> and spawnv(...)
>
> I've had the script dump the environment variables
> and the version dumped by root, differs from the version
> dumped from zope only in variables with "cookie" in them!
>
> Now I tried to do a simple "cat " and it don't seam to work either...
>
> I'm quite fustrated so it's time to go have fun (install SUSE 10 XEN on 
> SUSE
> 10....   Whoooopeeee!).
>
> If anyone, anywhere has any ideas WTF is going on here,
> please give me a hint!
>
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
>
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