Dearest Monks,
I've never really had much experience with windows IIS, and I'm trying to run this painfully simple script
#!c:/Perl/bin/perl.exe
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Created Installer 2: ";
my $value = system(1,'c:\program\ie\makeinstall 2');
#my $value = system(1,'c:\program\ie\makeinstall.bat 2');
print "value=$value";

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The output: Created Installer 2: value=-1

Anything glaringly wrong with this syntax? I've also used the exec statement in place of statement. Seeking the Monks infinite wisdom

UPDATE: I changed the permissions, however this is the output now: Created Installer 2: value=65280 and there was no installer creation (the point of the batch file)

UPADATE2: Also if I double click on the pl file, the script runs fine and builds the installer. I'm not sure what new permissions I can give to the folder that its running in, it has every single one open.

In reply to Executing windows batch files via System by mitbeaver

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