Tomasz thanks again. That seemed to sort out the issues. Would you recommend using batch files over the cmd /c approach when dealing with situations like this? I have read on the Irfanview silent installer page in the wiki that '"copy" is not awailable in wpkg and "xcopy" will not always work in silent mode'. -- David Miller On 8/19/06, Tomasz Chmielewski <tch at syneticon.net> wrote: > > > I have a couple of packages that are using cmd /c <command> to install > and > > remove software and sometimes the cmd window seems to hang and I have to > > kill it. The cmd runs fine if I cut and paste it into a cmd prompt on > the > > machine. Any ideas what would cause such on issue? > > > > Here's one package that's giving me the problem. The 2nd command copies > 2 > > files and the 3rd copies 45 files. It's the 3rd command that it tends > to > > hang on. When I run this manually it takes less than 2 seconds to copy > the > > 45 files. > > Yes, probably you run WPKG with /quiet flag. > This means it logs all what WPKG says to Windows event log. > > By default, Windows event log is 512 + 128 + 64 kB large, for various > event groups (rotated). > Isn't it a joke? 720 kB maximum logs? So that they could fit on a single > side floppy, anyone still remember those? :) > > You use "copy" command, and I believe your "copy" is running in verbose > mode, so it produces a lot of text, which gets appended to the event log. > > So you have at least three solutions: > > 1) increase the size of event log on all your Windows workstations > > 2) don't use /quiet with wpkg.js > > 3) run "copy" (and all other commands that produce output) in a > quiet/silent mode. > If the quiet/silent mode is not available, you can make the command quiet > by appending >nil at the very end of the command. > > > So, point 3 is the easiest and recommended. > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20060819/4b486be1/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users |