RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: exec() without waiting for completion in Win2k

Noel The task scheduler runs as the SYSTEM account which cannot access network resources - can you change the user account the service runs under if you run the original AT task scheduler or set up a new task and run it as a real user account if you use the new IE5 upwards task scheduler ... Rich -----Original Message----- From: Noel Llopis [mailto:llopis@comcast.net] Sent: 09 September 2002 00:35 To: Rich Gray Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Re: exec() without waiting for completion in Win2k On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 22:42:44 -0700 Rich Gray <richardgray@onetel.co.uk> wrote: > Sorry ... I misunderstood (i.e. didn't bother to read your post fully!) - > look into running the AT command to run the command asyncronously > > i.e. > <? > $time=date("H:i"); > exec(getenv('WINDIR').'\\system32\\at.exe '.$time.' > C:\MyPath\MyScript.bat'); > ?> Hmmm... Tempting, but there is one big problem. I just found out that commands executed with AT don't have access to network drives or settings. Some of this build process involves fetching data over the network, so it won't work. I even wrote a C program that calls spawn() on the command you pass on the command line, but it didn't work either. I can't believe how frustrating this is. All of which could have been accomplished with a sinmple & under Unix :-( Any other ideas? I think I tried just about everything I could think of. Thanks.