Hello monks,

For about a year, I've been running a script that uses Win32::OLE and CuteFTP's Transfer Engine. The pertinent part of the script begins like this: 

use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'CuteFTPPro';
my $ftp = Win32::OLE->new('CuteFTPPro.TEConnection', 'Close')
   or die "Error: Can't create FTP object: $!";
print "FTP object created, continuing...\n";

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This script runs unattended on a Windows 2000 machine, using Task Scheduler, running in the context of a service account I set up for this purpose. I have a new project that requires something similar, so I borrowed a bunch of this code from the working script.

My new script is complete, and runs fine when I run it manually from a command prompt, logged in as my service account. The problem is, the script hangs at this point when I run it unattended from Task Scheduler. The my $ftp = line never finishes: it doesn't print the die error, nor the following print statement. (I'm piping the output to a logfile, so I can see exactly where it hangs.) It will hang at this point until I kill the task.

I'm at a loss to explain it, and I can't figure out how to troubleshoot this. I don't have much visibility into the process when it's running as a scheduled task, so I don't know where to go with this. Does anyone have guesses as to what might be going on, or how to narrow it down? Any ideas would be appreciated - thanks!

In reply to Can't create Win32::OLE object by EyeOpener

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