On Feb 8, 1:28 am, Sean DiZazzo <half.ital...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 7, 4:57 pm, T <misceveryth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestions - I think my next step is to try running > > it under an admin user account, as you guys both mentioned. Alf - > > you're absolutely right, Microsoft has srvany.exe, which allows you to > > run any EXE as a Windows service. I've done this in the past, but > > it's more of a "hack"..so this go around (since I will be distributing > > this program), I wanted to go the more professional route..which, > > unfortunately, involves learning the "scum". :) I posted this to > > comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, so we'll see if what the Win32 > > programmers have to say as well. Thanks again! > > I use windows services and they are very reliable. I would say though > that relying on plink.exe is much less reliable than either python or > the service that it is running under. > > Why not take a look at paramiko as the ssh client library? I think it > runs under windows. Also perhaps Twisted has something. Either way > would be light years ahead of using subprocess with plink. > > Just my thoughts. > > ~Sean
I totally agree that it would be much more reliable to use a Python library for SSH - however, the program will need to execute other external binaries as well. So my goal at this point is to track down _why_ it's failing when running as a service. The actual command is as follows: C:\plink.exe -R 9999:127.0.0.1:2020 -batch -i C:\keyfile.ppk u...@10.10.10.1 I tried having subprocess.Popen run plink.exe by itself and piping output to file, and this worked - so I know it's at least executing plink.exe. Sorry, I realize this isn't truly just a Python-related question, but any help would be greatly appreciated! So far no help at comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
