Accessing Python script with ColdFusion

[Jay Dorsey]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:52:59PM -0800, Michael Wood wrote:
> We're using mailman (python based) to do mailing lists. I'd like to write a 
> ColdFusion interface to the command line scripts for managing list 
> membership but there's a problem. I can run the scripts from the Linux 
> command line with no problem. But when I run the scripts via the CFExecute 
> tag in ColdFusion there isn't any output returned. That isn't entirely 
> true, if I use the -h argument the help screen displays okay but any other 
> sort of output never turns up. And it doesn't return an error so it seems 
> as though the script is executing or starts to execute but the output 
> buffer never flushes to the standard output or something like that...
> 
> I'd really like to make this work. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do 
> so?
> 
Have you made sure you specified a timeout in the CFEXECUTE tag? 
I just recalled a similar situation I encountered:

http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20030120/133253.html

See if that helps any; esp. the use of the CFSAVECONTENT tag.

I feel silly for not remembering this sooner :)



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