[wpkg-users] cmd /c hanging?

[David Miller]

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
>
>
>
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