SITE EXEC Problems

[buck]

Everytime I SITE EXEC a program (eg. SITE EXEC start /b run.exe), it hangs until the program has finished executing. This becomes a problem when I run a program which remains in memory and doesn't "finish." -- (The app launches but I get disconnected after it times out) Any ideas as to how I would go about fixing this? Thanks!

[FTPServerTools]

First. dont run scripts that hang. Second you can remotely kill those processes by using ioProcess. It will show you how long processes are runnign and it gives you the possibility to kill processes that are running under ioFTPD and are hanging. See the scripts section.

[buck]

thx for the reply

i think u may have misunderstood what i was asking. i'm asking about launching applications (processes) through site exec, not launching a script which performs a function and then closes. the application is supposed to remain in memory, so i don't want to kill it. i'm talking about general applications which are completely seperate from ioftpd. hopefully, this makes sense.

[Harm]

Originally posted by buck
thx for the reply

i think u may have misunderstood what i was asking. i'm asking about launching applications (processes) through site exec, not launching a script which performs a function and then closes. the application is supposed to remain in memory, so i don't want to kill it. i'm talking about general applications which are completely seperate from ioftpd. hopefully, this makes sense.

So, why are you trying to start them through ioFTPD ?
FTPServerTools is correct, you shouldn't run scripts that hang.

[buck]

why? because that's what "site exec" (as a general function) is for. it's a feature found in many ftpds. ioftpd seems to execute/process everything within itself, so i guess it isn't capable of doing what i'm asking.

edit:
nevermind may have figured out a workaround for what im doing.