External Task not starting .ipl

Jeremy

Solaris, TS552
Hi,
We are having problems with External Tasks running in the Workflow. We kick off the WF, the first task is an External Task (start="t"). But this task does not start. However if I try running this task from the command line it executes perfectly. I don't think this is an environment variables problem as the external .ipl does not even start. Tried a very simple task that wrote to a log file and then did a callback, but from Teamsite it does not execute...ie. nothing in the log file. However from the command line it executes fine and transitions the WF to the next task.
The owner of the task is iwadmin.
There are no errors in the iwjoberrors.log file.

I am calling the external task as I normally do, but it does not seem to work. When I run the WF in debug mode and copy and paste the exact command onto the command line it, followed by the jobid, taskid, workarea and files, it works perfectly.

Anyone have any ideas?

Jeremy

Adam Stoller

(1) Is the externaltask script executable (chmod +x)?
(2) Is the #! line (the first line) of the perl script pointing to the correct location of iwperl?
(3) Are you parsing the command line arguments correctly?
(4) Are there any errors in iwtrace.log, iwjoberrors.log, or in the iw-webd/logs/error.log ?

If you post the script (as an attachment) and perhaps the wft that calls it, we might be able to provide a better diagnosis.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Edited by ghoti on 02/24/03 05:56 AM (server time).