workflow and opendeploy

mogoo

Help! We have a workflow with an external task that calls on an ipl. The ipl calls on iwodstart to deploy the attached files. This workflow was working fine for a couple of months until a couple of days ago, when it suddenly stopped working.

The 3 files associated with this wf (2 mentioned above, plus the deployment config xml file) haven't been touched, and our sysadmin says nothing has been changed on the server. Furthermore, we have a custom menu item that calls on the very same deployment config file, and it works fine.

In the wf log, when it was working, it would write this:
2003.07.28 (15:23)
Locating OpenDeploy service.
OpenDeploy server host: localhost, RMI registry port: 9173
Got OpenDeploy service.
>>>>>-- Start deployment GO_emergency_deploy.
iwodstart running in default synchronous mode.
Need to wait for deployment to complete.
>>>>>-- Deployment GO_emergency_deploy finished:
ID: m221 Start time: Mon Jul 28 15:23:29 PDT 2003
Status: Complete
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now that it's not working, it just writes this:
2003.07.30 (09:54)
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I've run out of places to look. Seems to me like it might be a permissions thing, as the deployment script works fine from the custom menu. Can anyone give me any clues as to where to look?

Thanks for any insight!
maureen

nipper

Have you tried just echoing the command line from the Perl script & then running it from the command line as that user ?
That is the first thing I start testing with.

In fact, in all of my ipls, I use something like this:

$cmd = "iwodstart.... > /tmp/OD_log_$$.txt 2>&1"

print LOG "$cmd\n";
$out = `$cmd`;
print "result $out\n";


see if the command runs from the command line first, go from there

Andy