Accessing Python script with ColdFusion

[Michael Wood]

I've tried using a timeout of 1 and 3. It didn't make any difference. I 
also just tried setting the outputFile argument to a file in a folder that 
I know is accessible to CF. It created an empty file. So no joy there.

Mike

At 07:07 PM 12/6/2003, you wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:52:59PM -0800, Michael Wood wrote:
> > We're using mailman (python based) to do mailing lists. I'd like to 
> write a
> > ColdFusion interface to the command line scripts for managing list
> > membership but there's a problem. I can run the scripts from the Linux
> > command line with no problem. But when I run the scripts via the CFExecute
> > tag in ColdFusion there isn't any output returned. That isn't entirely
> > true, if I use the -h argument the help screen displays okay but any other
> > sort of output never turns up. And it doesn't return an error so it seems
> > as though the script is executing or starts to execute but the output
> > buffer never flushes to the standard output or something like that...
> >
> > I'd really like to make this work. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do
> > so?
> >
>
>Have you made sure you specified a timeout in the CFEXECUTE tag?
>I just recalled a similar situation I encountered:
>
>http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20030120/133253.html
>
>See if that helps any; esp. the use of the CFSAVECONTENT tag.
>
>I feel silly for not remembering this sooner :)
>
>
>
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