Executing Windows Script from java

[Roshini Sridharan]

hi all,

i am trying to execute the adminscript for Starting/Stoping the Web Server IIS5.0 in windows 2000.

The following is the code
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Process r = ob.exec("c:/inetpub/adminscripts/startweb.vbs -a 1,2 -c globalv");
r.waitFor();
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i get the exception as below.
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Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: c:\inetpub\admins
cripts\startweb.vbs -a 1,2 -c globalv error=193
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
at ScriptExec.main(ScriptExec.java:18)
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Pls help in solving this problem.

Pls move this to appropriate forum because i am not sure where to post.

Regards
Roshini.S

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

A .vbs file isn't an executable, so you can't execute it directly with exec(). I believe you have to exec() CMD.EXE and pass this whole command line as an argument; i.e., "CMD /C <everything else>".

[Roshini Sridharan]

I got it correctly.

Thank you so much sir for ur valuable guidance.



Regards
Roshini.S