Hello fellow Monks,


since I cannot find help on this matter on stackoverflow(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11671370/perl-not-executing-command-when-in-debugger-or-as-a-win32daemon) and I did find only one unanswered question on the web regarding this problem, I will now try my luck here.

I have a Perl program (CertNanny) that executes a binary (sscep). If I try to run it in my Eclipse debugger (EPIC), the binary reports a return code of "53" (after $? >> 8). However, if I do call another binary (e.g. "dir" or an absolute path to another binary) it works. And if I make another small perl script that only calls the sscep binary - this also works.

Furthermore sscep does not have a return code of "53". Here is what I call:

my $cmd = q("C:\path\to\sscep.exe")
open FH, "$cmd |" or die "Couldn't execute $cmd: $!\n"; 
    while(defined(my $line = <FH>)) {
        chomp($line);
        print "$line\n";
    }
close FH;

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The whole program works perfectly if executed from the command line. But as soon as I launch the debugger or install it as a service (Win32::Daemon), it reports this weird error. The software itself does not get executed.

So my core question is: Why is it reporting the error "53", what could be the reason for this or what does it mean. Since my wisdom on Perl ends here, I come to you for help and advice.

Thank you in advance.

Regards, Florian

P.S.: If I missed any important detail, please also take a look at my SO question, as there are a lot (possibly superflous) details on this issue.

In reply to Executing command line script in Eclipse or as Win32::Daemon does not work by Anonymous Monk

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