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charedrive
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August 29, 2014
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Executing perl from Coldfusion 10

  • August 29, 2014
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I manage an application using CF9 on a Solaris server.  We're trying upgrade to CF10 but some of our perl scripts have stopped executing command line tasks.

Example from perl script:

     system("/apps/commonApps/distiller/Distiller/distill -compat 1.3 /apps/upload/sdg325453.ps");

The permissions for the distiller allow anyone to execute it.  I can execute this command directly or execute the perl script directly with no issue.  It's just when the perl is called from coldfusion that I have a problem.  I can't find any errors being recorded.  Does anyone here have thoughts on why this is happening?

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    Correct answer charedrive

    Found the answer.  The account running the coldfusion changed between 9 and 10.  The new account needed access to a hidden directory (.AcrobatDistiller) and an update to a few perl config files.

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    charedriveAuthorCorrect answer
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    September 9, 2014

    Found the answer.  The account running the coldfusion changed between 9 and 10.  The new account needed access to a hidden directory (.AcrobatDistiller) and an update to a few perl config files.

    BKBK
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    BKBKCommunity Expert
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    September 10, 2014

    Please, kindly mark it as correct answer. Thanks.

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