[python-win32] Can't import wmi in scripts run by nrpe_nt

[Jan Van Uytven (Wyvern)]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 08:25 +0100, Tim Golden wrote:
> | BTW, I'd like to congratulate you on wmi. If it weren't so 
> | useful to me I wouldn't be trying to solve this problem.
> 
> Thanks for the bouquet. In fact, the people who really deserve
> congratulations are the MS team who put the WMI stuff together,
> and Mark H and the other contributors to pywin32. All I've
> done is put some lightweight plumbing in place to make the
> whole experience a little easier to cope with.

I noticed Mark Hammond posts to this newsgroup too. Thanks Mark, and all
other contributors, for making life easier for the beleagured
sysadmin! :)

> 
> | I'm sorry, I could have phrased this better.
> 
> That's all right; your explanation below (snipped) makes
> it perfectly clear. I suspect the problem is that the nrpe_nt
> process runs as a service. There is (probably) a .dll called
> wmi in your windows system directory. When the service runs,
> it probably runs as the system user in the system directory.
> When it imports wmi, it actually tries to import the wmi.dll
> (which is nothing to do with Python, but rather to do with
> wmi itself). It either fails nicely or bombs completely,
> depending slightly on what version of Python you're running.
> 
> Two possible solutions, both quite simple:
> 
> a) Run the service outside the c:\winnt\system32 (or whatever)
>    directory. Or at least do an os.chdir before importing wmi.
> b) Rename wmi.py on that machine to pywmi.py (or whatever other
>    name takes your fancy) and try again.
> 
> Let me know if that helps
> 

Roger pointed this out too, and is indeed the problem. Thanks! I'll see
if it's possible to get the nrpe_nt service to run in another directory,
and failing that use the os.chdir trick you suggested. :)

Thanks again for your help :)


> TJG
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