Note that any option value that contains spaces, like your command value,
should be enclosed in double quotes when submitted via the command line
(or if submitted via a program, a STAF API called wrapData is provided to
"wrap" the data) so that the STAF command parser knows when an option
value begins and ends. For example:
STAF local PROCESS START COMMAND "C:/IBM/ITM/BIN/tacmd.exe stopAgent -t NT
-f" workdir C:/IBM/ITM/BIN WAIT RETURNSTDOUT STDERRTOSTDOUT
The return code 128 is being returned by the command you are running
(tacmd.exe), not STAF. The PROCESS service syntax is the same regardless
of the operating system. Did you try running the command without STAF on
the Windows 2003 machine and see what you get, as maybe you don't have
tacmd.exe installed or set up correctly on that machine?
One other thing you could try is to specify the SAMECONSOLE option on your
PROCESS START request in case the tacmd.exe tries to read from standard
input. For example:
STAF local PROCESS START COMMAND "C:/IBM/ITM/BIN/tacmd.exe stopAgent -t NT
-f" workdir C:/IBM/ITM/BIN WAIT RETURNSTDOUT STDERRTOSTDOUT SAMECONSOLE
--------------------------------------------------------------
Sharon Lucas
IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com
(512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313
Andrea Savelli Sr <savel...@it.ibm.com>
05/27/2009 03:18 AM
To
Sharon Lucas/Austin/i...@ibmus
cc
Subject
Re: [staf-users] Error starting the process
Hi Lucas,
thank you very much for your quick help.
I have follow your istructions but the result is another error.
In particular, I install a ITM OS Agent on two Windows platform.
When I run the start and stop command for agent with staf like
staf local process start command C:/IBM/ITM/BIN/tacmd.exe stopAgent -t NT
-f workdir C:/IBM/ITM/BIN WAIT RETURNSTDOUT STDERRTOSTDOUT
on the Windows 2000 Server the result is
Response
--------
{
Return Code: 0
Key : <None>
Files : [
{
Return Code: 0
Data :
KUICKA007I: Stopping NT agent(s).
KUICKA015I: All NT agents on the local system were stopped.
}
]
}
instead on Windows 2003 Server the result is
Response
--------
{
Return Code: 128
Key : <None>
Files : [
{
Return Code: 0
Data :
}
]
}
Do you known if this depends on the platform, or on the setting of
machines, or other?
Thank you for your help.
Bye
Andrea
Sharon Lucas <luc...@us.ibm.com>
26/05/2009 19.01
To
Andrea Savelli Sr/Italy/Contr/i...@ibmit
cc
staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject
Re: [staf-users] Error starting the process
You need to either:
a) Fully qualify the path to your command executable so that the command
can be located and successfully started. For example, if your command is
"myTest.exe" and it's located in C:\tests", you can specify:
STAF local PROCESS START COMMAND C:/tests/myTest.exe WORKDIR C:/tests WAIT
RETURNSTDOUT STDERRTOSTDOUT
b) Or, if you wanted your command to run in an environment where the
system path included the working directory, you can use the ENV option to
update the system path environment variable. Note that if you specify the
SHELL option in the PROCESS START request in this situation, you don't
need to specify the path to the command because the updated system path
will be used to find the command. For example:
STAF local PROCESS START SHELL COMMAND myTest.exe ENV
PATH=C:/tests{STAF/Config/Sep/Path}{STAF/Env/Path} WORKDIR C:/tests WAIT
RETURNSTDOUT STDERRTOSTDOUT
Note that in both cases, the WORKDIR option is only needed if your
executable needs to be run in a particular directory.
For more information, see the following example in section "8.12.2 START",
sub-section "Examples", in the STAF User's Guide:
Goal: Start the myTest.exe executable on machine client1.
Syntax and Results:
C:\>STAF client1 PROCESS START COMMAND myTest.exe
Response
--------
60
The result buffer contains the handle number of the process that was
started (which in this case is 60). This is not the return code of the
process as the process was started asynchronously (without the WAIT
option) so the STAF request completes as soon as the process is started
and doesn't wait for the process to complete.
However, if the myTest.exe file was not found in the system path on
machine client1, you would get an error starting the process. For example:
C:\>STAF client1 PROCESS START COMMAND myTest.exe
Error submitting request, RC: 10
Additional info
---------------
Error starting the process. CreateProcess failed with OS RC 2: The system
cannot
find the file specified.
The return code from the STAF request is 10. STAF RC 10 indicates a base
operating system error was encountered (e.g. STAF local HELP ERROR 10
gives more information about STAF RC 10) and an error message that
includes the actual base operating system error code, 2, is provided in
the result buffer. OS error code 2 indicates that a file was not found. In
this case, the myTest.exe file was not found since it's not in the system
path.
If myTest.exe is located in directory C:\tests on machine client1, you can
fully qualify the path to myTest.exe so that the command can be located
and successfully started. For example:
C:\>STAF client1 PROCESS START COMMAND C:/tests/myTest.exe
Response
--------
62
Or, if you wanted myTest.exe to run in an environment where the system
path included the C:/tests directory, you can use the ENV option to update
the system path environment variable. Note that if you specify the SHELL
option in this situation, you don't need to specify the path to the
command because the updated system path will be used to find the command.
For example:
C:\>STAF client1 PROCESS START SHELL COMMAND myTest.exe ENV
PATH=C:/tests{STAF/Config/Sep/Path}{STAF/Env/Path}
Response
--------
64
--------------------------------------------------------------
Sharon Lucas
IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com
(512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313
Andrea Savelli Sr <savel...@it.ibm.com>
05/26/2009 11:18 AM
To
staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net
cc
Subject
[staf-users] Error starting the process
Hi,
I would run a command with STAF on Windows platform. So, I launch
staf local process start command <COMMAND> workdir <PATH THAT INCLUDE THE
COMMAND> WAIT RETURNSTDOUT STDERRTOSTDOUT
but the result is following
Error submitting request, RC: 10
Additional info
---------------
Error starting the process. CreateProcess failed with OS RC 2: The system
cannot
find the file specified.
However, when I run the command without STAF, the command is good.
Help me please.
Thank you
Andrea
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