I run the following Perl code when a certain user loggs on to my Windows 2000 Server machine.

#!/usr/bin/perl
open(DBFILE,"<Y:\\tsweb.log")|| die;
while ($line=<DBFILE>) {
  chomp $line;
  if ($line =~ m/|/) {
      $myline = $line;
   }
}
($TimeandDateStamp, $ip, $appid, $apppath, $extra) = split(/\|/, $myli
+ne);
system "start /max /w $apppath";
system "logoff";
exit;

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Everything works great untill the script process these lines of code:

system "start /max /w $apppath";
system "logoff";

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When those lines of code are proccessed, a Command Prompt is launched. In this case that is a security risk for me.

I thought I could use the Win32::Process module to solve the problem of the CammandPrompt launching, but I can't get the module to work right.

Can somebody give me an example code snippet using this module to do what I need, or tell me a better way?

Thanks in advance for any advise!

Andrew Kenton Mitchell
Andrew@AndrewKMitchell.com

In reply to Spawing Win32 Processes by akm2

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