Perl doesn't complete task

Hello,

Part of my workflow sends a list of files to a perl script. The perl script then works out the path and then issues an IWGEN command for each item in the list.

Now this works perfectly when the list is around 50 long but anything larger the perl script doesn't finish. It just hangs, no errors, nothing.

This is not an isolated issue, another script also has problems with large(?) lists.

When I run this file on a different machine it flies through it no problem, so there is no issue with the script.

Anyone got any ideas?

thanks

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nipper

open your iw.cfg, in the [workflow] section add this line:

external_task_add_filelist=false

ISCBorisB

Hello,

Part of my workflow sends a list of files to a perl script. The perl script then works out the path and then issues an IWGEN command for each item in the list.

Now this works perfectly when the list is around 50 long but anything larger the perl script doesn't finish. It just hangs, no errors, nothing.

This is not an isolated issue, another script also has problems with large(?) lists.

When I run this file on a different machine it flies through it no problem, so there is no issue with the script.

Anyone got any ideas?

thanks

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Migrateduser

Perl doenst have any issues with adding N number of files. This hang out problem occurs due to HTTP time out problem only.
You must be printing some HTML in your perl script that is making it stuck.
You can try using CGI instead of perl to display HTML or dont display HTML in the same file which is executing the command.
Best way is to do it through workflows.

ISCBorisB

Perl doenst have any issues with adding N number of files. This hang out problem occurs due to HTTP time out problem only.
You must be printing some HTML in your perl script that is making it stuck.
You can try using CGI instead of perl to display HTML or dont display HTML in the same file which is executing the command.
Best way is to do it through workflows.

You obviously have not read the original post before replying.

Skaj IS doing that in the Workflow. He's NOT issuing http requests, just regenerating components
from the External Task. Thus there is no timeouts, not need whatever for CGI Task, etc. His problem
is exceeded Maximum Command length